Deadly glacier break: Himalayan glaciers will collapse more frequently as the climate warms, experts say go.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from go.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated Feb 08, 2021 | 14:10 IST
The monster of climate change has a firm grip on the ecological balance of the world. Disasters such as Chamoli and Kedarnath flashfloods are likely to get more frequent as glaciers lose more mass. Ngozumba glacier, the largest glacier in great Himalayan range | Photo Credit: iStock Images
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In the next less than 15 years, the mountains of Himalayas bid adieu to the last of glaciers unless there is a drastic correction in use of fossil fuels and other factors affecting global warming.
A study revealed that this melting means runoff is 1.6 times greater than if the glaciers were stable, resulting in seasonal flooding and the creation of many glacial lakes that create a risk of catastrophic outburst floods.
December 12, 2020
It’s AGU Fall Meeting week, and the Science stories typically hit peak volume during this time.
This story is spectacular.
Paul Voosen in Science:
BURLINGTON, VERMONT In one of the Cold War’s oddest experiments, the United States dug a 300-meter-long military base called Camp Century into the ice of northwest Greenland in the early 1960s, powered it with a nuclear reactor, and set out to test the feasibility of shuttling nuclear missiles beneath the ice. A constant struggle against intruding snow doomed the base, which was abandoned in 1966. But Camp Century has left a lasting, entirely nonmilitary legacy: a 1.3-kilometer-long ice core drilled at the site.