BERLIN, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Even though some Himalayan glaciers are stable despite warming climate trends, a U.N.-backed panel has determined most of them are melting away.
A three-year study of the Hindu Kush region of the Himalayas found as much as 65 -percent of the Himalayan glaciers were melting away because of the affect climate change is having on monsoon rains that feed the ice.