NASA Detects a Critical Change in 95,000 Glaciers that Will Change Maps as We Know Them and Threatens the Biggest Water Shortage Crisis

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The glaciers of the High Mountain of Asia are losing mass at a rate that can no longer be treated as a mere distant sign of climate change. A new study based on data from NASA's GRACE and GRACE-FO missions has calculated an average loss of 13.9 ± 3.6 gigatons per year between 2002/03 and 2022/23. One gigaton is equivalent to one billion tons. It is not a small thing. The region includes the Tibetan highlands and several mountain ranges that feed…