Himalayan ice melting at 'scary' levels
20 June 2019; DW: Satellite images demonstrate that the Himalayan glaciers are melting at twice the speed they were before the turn of the century.
The Asian mountain range has been losing ice at a rate of about 1% a year since 2000, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.
That equates to a decrease in size by more than a foot-and-a-half (50 centimeters) each year — double the rate of the previous 25 years.
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