New Delhi, Feb 9 Himalayan glaciers are highly sensitive to climate change and are rapidly shrinking, posing a big threat to the populations that rely on them, according to scientific explanations.
Besides the ecosystem services that the glaciers provide, their melting increases the risk of runoffs and floods as recently seen with the Uttarakhand glacier disaster that claimed 26 lives and 197 people still reported missing with rescue operations underway.
The science behind what is currently happening in the Himalayas was forecasted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
( With inputs from IANS )
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