The glacier crisis has a direct link with flood menace and unprecedented change in the climate. The loss of glaciers is about more than rising seas means shrinking water supplies for a big chunk of the world's population.
The heat accelerated glacier melting, followed by unprecedented rainfall patterns during July and August. The loss of lives since mid-June 2022 currently stands at over 1,300. And it is estimated that the number of people affected by the floods is around 33 million.
Recently, many people were shocked to see dark red blotches in the snow of Alps Glaciers in France that looked like blood. Scientists have now said that these red stains are known as, 'Glacier Blood'. Know why is it an important key to understand climate change.
A team of scientists on Saturday conducted an aerial survey of glaciers at the origin of Rishiganga river in Chamoli.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said water level in the Rishi Ganga river has risen by two feet.
Among other things, it measured the strength, temperature, salinity and oxygen content of the ocean currents under the glacier and found variations.
The researchers from Ohio State University in the US said the first glaciers to go could be the ones in Papua, Indonesia, which they called "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountain top glaciers around the world.
The Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade alone, whereas the Earth as a whole has warmed by nearly the same amount over the past 137 years, according to a study which examined the global consequences of continued polar warming. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, documented the effects of warming in the Arctic and Antarctic on wildlife, traditional human livelihoods, tundra vegetation, methane release, and loss of sea- and land ice.
New Delhi, Jul 26: Melting of glaciers coupled with monsoon rains, triggering overflow of rivers, were responsible for the Uttarakhand tragedy, a top official of the Ministry of Earth Sciences said here today.“The flood was
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