Sentences with phrase «kush glaciers»
With its headwaters in distant Hindu Kush glaciers, the river would have continued flowing even in the hottest summers or longest droughts.
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Yesterday, the U.N. Environment Programme said the majority of glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau are retreating, with some exceptions.
The report examines how changes to glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan region, which covers eight countries across Asia, could affect the area's river systems, water supplies, and the South Asian population.
Pakistan's largely agrarian economy, Rasul noted, is mainly fed by the Hindu Kush - Karakoram and Himalayan glaciers that are reported receding due to global warming.
Using new remote sensing methods to generate an updated glacier inventory for the Karakoram region of Asia — which is part of the Hindu Kush - Karakoram - Himalaya mountain range located between the borders of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China — Rankl et al. (2014) developed what they describe as «a new comprehensive dataset on the state of advancing, stable and retreating glaciers, including the temporal and spatial variations of frontal positions between 1976 and 2012.»
The majority of Pakistan's 190 million people are involved in agriculture: the Indus, fed by glaciers high up in the Hindu Kush - Karakoram Himalaya mountain range, provides water for 90 percent of the country's crops.
Many rivers draining glaciated regions, particularly in the Hindu Kush - Himalaya and the South - American Andes, are sustained by glacier melt during the summer season (Singh and Kumar, 1997; Mark and Seltzer, 2003; Singh, 2003; Barnett et al., 2005).
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In a study published in Nature today, scientists assembled new datasets from Earth - observing satellites and found that glaciers in the Hindu Kush — Karakoram — Himalaya region (HKKH) lost 12 gigatonnes per year over the period 2003 — 08, much faster than previously reported.
The Glaciers of the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region.
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A summary of the science regarding glacier melt / retreat in the Himalayan, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Pamir, and Tien Shan mountain ranges.
Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia's Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region's water supply are unclear, this report finds.
«Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu - Kush, Himalaya, Andes)...»
The glaciers in the Hindu Kush - Himalayas are retreating, which scientists believe is the result of climate warming.
Pabitra Mukhopadhyay: When it becomes clear that the increasing risk of GLOFs is the outcome of a global trend in climate change and when it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue reading...]