The huge glaciers of the Himalayas began to melt

The new report, written by 210 scientists, highlights the dramatic melting of ice already in this century. The International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, which published this report, predicts that these glaciers will continue to lose a huge amount of ice when they are heated.

Under the most optimistic conditions, more than a third of the ice will disappear at the end of the century. But in more extreme climate scenarios where global climate conservation efforts fail, two-thirds of these mighty glaciers may disappear with a total ice loss of up to 90%.

"From a glacier point of view, it's not a very good history, glaciers and to see that the signs of a recent loss are quite significant," said Joseph Shi, one of the leading reporters and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Geomatics, University of North British Columbia, who spent four years in Nepal watching

The Himalayas are expected to disappear by the end of the century when its glaciers in the Hindu Kush are warming about 2 degrees Celsius.

Glaciers in the region feed ten rivers in water two billion people in the mountains and valleys of these rivers. The accelerated melting of glaciers can lead to flooding and, when the glacier resources are exhausted, on the contrary, a lack of water and droughts.

Since the 1970s, Hindukush has already lost 15% of the ice cover. This warming process depends on the altitude. Experts now say that the temperature in the region is increasing at an accelerated rate, although the cause of this phenomenon is unclear in the end.

Previously, "Direct" signaled that global warming by the end of the 21st century would result in a change in the color of the oceans associated with changing the amount of phytoplankton in the waters.

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