Glaciers Are Melting Fast and Putting Billions at Risk - One Green Planet

Glaciers Are Melting Fast and Putting Billions at Risk - One Green Planet

UN warns 2 billion people face food and water threats from glacier melt driven by climate change. We’re all connected to the crisis. The post Glaciers Are Melting Fast and Putting Billions at Risk appeared first on One Green Planet.

Q&A: Climatologist Pam Pearson on why glacier loss must reshape global climate action

To mark the UN’s first International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP), Unesco and UN Water have released a flagship report, Mountains and Glaciers: Water towers. It warns that mountain water resources are “literally melting away before our eyes”: the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), part of the so-called Third Pole, has a glacier system that is among the most vulnerable on Earth and is “disappearing at an alarming rate”.  The report warns that re…

Researchers from the "Deplete and Retreat" team, a group dedicated to research and outreach on glaciers, maintain that Andean ice is thinning 35% faster than the global average. Serrano Glacier, in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. Glaciers, snow, permafrost, lakes, and wetlands are natural water reserves that sustain the communities living around the Andes mountain range. The water and food security of nearly 90 million people depend on these w…