Everest's highest glacier has lost 2,000 years of ice in 30 years
The surprising finding that Earth’s highest ice may be gone in decades is “a real wake-up call.”
Source: nationalgeographic.com
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The surprising finding that Earth’s highest ice may be gone in decades is “a real wake-up call.”
The declining glacier will make Mount Everest climbers have to overcome bedrock, but it could also spell bad news for the 1 billion people who depend on it for water.
This confirms the heights that human-sourced climate change reaches.
The surprising finding that Earth’s highest ice may be gone in decades is “a real wake-up call.”
By Angela Dewan and Danya Gainor, CNN The highest glacier on the world's tallest mountain is losing decades worth of ice every year because of