Apr 18, 2012
New Research Shows Increase in Karakoram Glaciers
Call it a ‘climate change mystery’ but scientists have found the Glaciers of Karakorum gaining ice over the last decade. According to a research at the University of France, scientists have disclosed that the Karakoram glaciers— in contrast to worldwide decline in mountain glaciers— have increased around 0.11m to 0.22m per year between 1999 and 2008.
"Our conclusion that Karakoram glaciers had a small mass gain at the beginning of the 21st century indicates that those central/eastern glaciers are not representative of the whole (Himalayas)," researchers said in the report published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience journal. Click here to Read More...