Shrinking glaciers and effective policy-level communication

Subject: Environment

Context: Climate change impacts on Indus river basin glaciers

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Glaciologist says communicating about the uncertainties attached to glaciers with policymakers is one of the most challenging tasks.
The remote sensing models developed helps understand the Himalayan cryosphere and also estimate glacier mass balance.
Glaciers in the western Himalayas are “actively under the degradation phase,” as per one of the studies.
- Glaciers in the Alaknanda and Bhagirathi river basins in the Western Himalayas where the river Ganga originates. They find that around 96% of glaciers have continuously lost water between 2001 and 2013. Their findings strengthen the evidence that Himalayan glaciers are “actively under the degradation phase
Glaciologist talks about his experiences while studying glaciers, the state of glaciology in India and the need for revised water sharing practices between India and Pakistan with the backdrop of melting glaciers in the eastern Himalayas.
- Expert says the findings show the proportion of water distributed between India and Pakistan will be significantly affected by the middle of the centurydue to the non-uniform impacts of global warming in the region.