04-02-2019 12:45 via theguardian.com

A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report

Even radical climate change action won’t save glaciers, endangering 2 billion peopleAt least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a landmarkreport, with serious consequences for almost 2 billion people.Even if carbon emissions are dramatically and rapidly cut and succeed in limiting global warming to 1.5C, 36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range will have gone by 2100. If emissio
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