At least a third of the huge ice fields in Asia’s towering mountain chain are doomed to melt due to climate change, according to a landmark new report, with serious consequences for almost 2 billion people.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I've studied environmental issues for a long time and I have to prevent myself from crying every single day....because of this issue. We had a brilliantly-evolved, marvelously diverse planet and we shit on it.
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wow.. EXCERPT: Even if carbon emissions are dramatically and rapidly cut and succeed in limiting global warming to 1.5C, 36% of the glaciers along in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya range will have gone by 2100. If emissions are not cut, the loss soars to two-thirds, the report found.
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