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Melting Mountains
June 21 , 2019
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- According to a study published in Science Advances journal, the Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast now as they were before the turn of the century.
- They observed 40 years of satellite data spanning 2,000 kilometres across India, China, Nepal and Bhutan.
- They found that the glaciers have been losing the equivalent of a foot-and-a-half (45 centimetres) of ice each year since 2000.
- Average temperature rise was 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit higher between 2000 to 2016 than they were between 1975 and 2000.
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