Ice melting on the Himalayas threatens Asia
The "World" daily newspaper of the latest French issue has just written a warning that thawing in the Himalayas will "threaten the future of Asia".
The global warming not only made ice at the ends extremely thin but also made the permafrost on the peaks of the melting Himalayas.
The article suggests that this thawing phenomenon will cause widespread flooding, destroy crops and threaten the lives of more than a billion people living in many areas of regional countries, such as India and Pakistan. , Bangladesh and China .
The ice in the Himalayas stretches over an area of nearly 3 million hectares. It is considered as the third largest "snowball" in the world, after North and South Pole.
This "snow ice bowl" contains 12,000 km 3 of water, directly controlling the water of the major rivers in the region such as the Yangtze, Ganges and Mekong rivers.
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