Melting glaciers make the food crisis

Research by world scientists, published in the famous science journal "Science," warns that the melting of glaciers around the world will trigger new food crises.

According to the study, 60 million people living around the Himalayas will suffer serious food shortages in the next few decades as the region's glaciers shrink, causing water supplies for crops to be depleted.

However, this impact is not as serious as reported by the UN Intergovernmental Committee (IPCC), published in 2007, which predicts that the Himalayan glaciers will completely disappear by 2035. causing hundreds of millions of people to suffer from food shortages.

New calculations by German scientists show that the melting of these glaciers will reduce 19.6% of the supply of water to major rivers in Asia such as the Ganges, Yellow River, and Yangtze River. . in 2050.

Glaciers in the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will erode the grasslands and wetlands, threatening the Yangtze, Yellow River and Mekong river basins . With current climate conditions, about 30 % of the glaciers in Asia will disappear in the next 10 years.

If the Earth is warmer, glaciers melt faster and the situation will worsen because the glaciers in this region provide nearly 50% of the water for the Yellow River, 25% for the Yangtze and 15% of the water for the Mekong and the river supplies the most important water for Southeast Asian countries.

Research by international scientists predicts about 4.5% of Asia's total population will suffer food insecurity due to the impact of melting glaciers.