Glaciers in Pakistan: Pakistan is a country blessed with more than 7000 glaciers – some of them really big ones and others rather small ones. This is the reason why this Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush region is known as the “third pole” of this world – as it contains more ice than anywhere else in the world except […]
Glacier Melting and Glacial Retreat – Causes, Effects, Solutions
INTRODUCTION Glaciers are massive quantities of ice that move downward slowly. Wherever snow accumulates faster than it melts, a glacier forms. When melting outweighs accumulation, it retreats—that is, its terminal edge, the end of the glacier tongue, terminates at progressively higher heights. Since around 1850, the majority of the world’s mountain (alpine) glaciers have been […]