Himalayan glaciers News

Wangchuk is renowned for creating the solar-powered SECMOL campus Wangchuk in 2013, invented and built a prototype of the Ice Stupa which is an artificial glacier He received Magsaysay Award in the year 2018

Sonam Wangchuk Climate Fast: Wangchuk, an engineer by profession, posted a 2.16-minute long video in which he confirmed that he is continuing with his fast on day two on the rooftop of the Hial campus as the Khardungla pass is blocked due to heavy snowfall.  

The study is the latest and perhaps most convincing indication that climate change is eating the Himalayas' glaciers, potentially threatening water supplies for hundreds of millions of people downstream across much of Asia.  

The new analysis, spanning 40 years of satellite observations across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, showed glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a vertical foot-and-a-half of ice each year since 2000.

Himalayan glaciers melting due to Climate change. Watch this video to know more.

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The glaciers in the eastern and central Himalayas are retreating "continuously", while some in the western part of the mountain range are reportedly advancing.

The NASA study challenges the oft-repeated findings of the United Nation's panel on climate change, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that forecast a grim future for the melting ice sheets of the Antarctic.