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    Sonal Shridhar Shinde in News

    05-Apr-2023 11:01 AM


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    Himalayas lost glaciers equal to weight of 570 million elephants in 20 years

    The loss of these glaciers between 2000-2020 previously went unnoticed due to a lack of observations of the churning happening underneath the surface of the water and glaciers in the region.
    This shows a glacier in the Everest region some 140 km (87 miles) northeast of Kathmandu. (
    The glaciers have lost enough mass equal to around 570 million elephants put together.
    By accounting for the mass loss from lake-terminating glaciers, we can more accurately assess the specific annual mass balance of these glaciers compared to land-terminating ones, which further highlights the accelerated glacier mass loss across the greater Himalaya,” lead author Guoqing Zhang from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, said in a statement.
    Source: India Today