India, July 31 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
Several Indian institutes/universities/organizations funded by the Government of India through Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Ministry of Mines (MoM) and Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS) monitor Himalayan glaciers for various scientific studies including glacier melting and have reported accelerated heterogeneous mass loss in Himalayan glaciers. The mean retreat rate of Hindu Kush Himalayan glaciers is 14.9 15.1 meter/annum (m/a); which varies from 12.7 13.2 m/a in Indus, 15.5 14.4 m/a in Ganga and 20.2 19.7 m/a in Brahmaputra River basins. However, glaciers in t...