It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas.
As a result, the water supply two billion people is under threat.
The mountain range reaches 2500km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east.
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Its high peaks and valleys are covered in ice – or should be.
The annual cycle of melting snow feeds 12 major river basins that wind their way across the Central and East Asian landscape.
These are the major water sources for a dozen nations But measurements have revealed a steady decline in snow falling across the Himalayas in recent decades.
This season, snow in the Himalayas tumbled to an overall 23-year low. Professor Duncan Quincey / SWNS
This season, it tumbled to an overall 23-year low.
“This is an alarming
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