"Picture 3 million Olympic-size swimming pools full of water.
That's how much ice melts from glaciers in the Himalayas each year, a new study suggests, and climate change is the primary cause.
Even
more concerning is that the ice melt has doubled in recent years:
Himalayan glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a foot
and half of ice each year since 2000 – which is double the amount of
melting that took place from 1975 to 2000.
“This
is the clearest picture yet of how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting
over this time interval and why,” said study lead author Joshua Maurer, a
Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory.
Overall, the Asian mountain range, which includes Mount Everest, has been losing ice at a rate of about 1% a year since 2000.
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