The glacier on Everest, the world's highest mountain, is melting due to 'man-made climate change'. Glaciers are melting 70 times faster than glaciers. .According to a new study, the effects of climate change have reached the highest areas of the world.
.The study was published in the journal Nature, Climate and Atmospheric Science, according to CNN. The study was conducted under the supervision of a team of scientists and mountaineers from the University of Maine in the United States. .An expedition to Everest was launched in 2019 under the name National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition. Scientists and mountaineers travel to the glaciers of Everest and collect samples. .They also set up the world's tallest automatic weather station to collect data. After studying the data from there, evidence was found that the glaciers of Everest were melting at an alarming rate.
According to the study, the glaciers of Everest are protected by snow. These glaciers take decades to form. But as the ice melts, the glaciers melt faster every year. It takes about 2,000 years for glaciers to form on Everest. But it seems to be melting for 25 years.
.Professor Paul Maesky, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, who led the study, said the highest glacier on Everest acts as a protector in maintaining its balance. Now it can be seen that the roof of the earth has also been affected by man-made warming.
The study is based on glaciers over 26,300 feet high. The study sheds new light on the impact of rising temperatures on people's lives around the world. .The effects of man-made climate change on the world's highest glaciers have been clearly observed since the 1990s, it said. This has increased the risk of avalanches. About 600 climbers climb Everest each year, putting them at risk. .Glacier collapses could threaten the drinking water, food and livelihoods of more than 100 billion people in Asia. Because, their life depends on the river coming down from the Himalayas.
.The results of the Mount Everest Glacier study indicate that climate change may or may not be affecting glaciers in other parts of the world.
Climate change is not the only reason glaciers are melting, researchers say; On the contrary, it destroys the balance that the snow-covered surface maintains.
Professor Maysky said his international team has worked on the South Cole Glacier. .The glacier is located between Mount Everest and Lotus (the fourth highest mountain). The team is working on how long and for what reason this glacier has melted.
