Uttarakhand: Scientists conduct aerial survey of glaciers in Chamoli, team to submit report to Govt
India | May 30, 2021 7:52 ISTA team of scientists on Saturday conducted an aerial survey of glaciers at the origin of Rishiganga river in Chamoli.
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.
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