“There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown,” said mountaineer and botanist Frank Smythe…” a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.”
Acknowledging the blind hubris of our Anthropocene epoch
, NASA is keeping a space-based eye on the Himalayas, Karakoram, Hindu Kush –The glaciers and snowpack of Asia’s three highest mountain ranges harbor the largest volume of freshwater outside the polar ice sheets, leading hydrologists to dub this region “The Third Pole”. One-seventh of the world’s population depends on rivers flowing from these mountains for water to drink and to irrigate crops.
BY: JULIA JACOBO, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — Warming temperatures across the globe are changing landscapes and threatening local cities and communities. A devastating break of a glacier in the Himalayas on Feb. 7 left dozens dead and more than 100 missing after it smashed into multiple dams, collecting debris and energy as it made [.]
Glacial event that killed dozens could happen more often due to climate change
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Replay Video Warming temperatures across the globe are changing landscapes and threatening local cities and communities. A devastating break of a glacier in the Himalayas on Feb. 7 left dozens dead and more than 100 missing after it smashed into multiple dams, collecting debris and energy as it made its way down the flank before slamming into two hydroelectric plants in northern India. While it s difficult to attribute the cause of the collapse on climate change alone, rising temperatures will undoubtedly create more of these types of events in the future, experts told ABC News.
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