Melting glaciers bring energy uncertainty

摘要

Running 2,000 kilometres from east to west and comprising more than 60,000 square kilometres of ice, the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan glaciers are a source of water for the quarter of the global population that lives in south Asia. Glaciers are natural stores and regulators of water supply to rivers, which, in turn, provide water for domestic and industrial consumption, energy generation and irrigation.