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Nepal’s mountains have lost a third of their ice – UN Secretary General

Melting glaciers will lead to rising water levels in lakes and rivers, sweeping away entire communities, António Guterres said.

Due to global warming, Nepal’s mountains have lost nearly a third of their ice in just over 30 years. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said this on October 30 after visiting the area near Mount Everest, Reuters reports.

“Today I am here to shout from the highest mountaintop to the whole world: stop, you crazy people,” he said, calling for an end to the “fossil fuel era.”

According to climatologists, over the past 100 years, the temperature on Earth has increased by an average of 0.74 degrees Celsius, but warming in the Himalayas has occurred at a faster pace.

Nepal’s glaciers, sandwiched between two major carbon polluters, India and China, have melted 65% faster in the past decade than in the previous decade. The Secretary General emphasized that this will lead to an increase in water levels in lakes and rivers, which will wash away entire communities. Sea levels will also rise at record rates.

Guterres also called on countries to limit global temperature increases to 1.5°C to avoid “greater climate chaos.”

We remind you that, according to scientists’ forecasts, due to global warming, the Hindu Kush glaciers in the Himalayas may lose up to 75% of their volume by the end of the century. This could lead to dangerous floods and water shortages for the 240 million people who live in mountainous areas.

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