Inter Press ServiceBhrikuti Rai - Author - Inter Press Service https://www.ipsnews.net/author/bhrikuti-rai/ News and Views from the Global South Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:08:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 When the Himalayan Glaciers Recede https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/when-the-himalayan-glaciers-recede/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/when-the-himalayan-glaciers-recede/#respond Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:15:29 +0000 Bhrikuti Rai http://www.ipsnews.net/?p=111552

By Bhrikuti Rai
Jul 21 2012 (IPS)

Every morning, as Gian Pietro Verza walks up the lateral moraine of the Khumbu Glacier in this Himalayan country’s north-east to take measurements, the wind makes colourful prayer flags flutter noisily. That same wind carries soot particles that are causing the snow on the mountains to melt faster.



Photos by Bikram Rai/Nepali Times for IPS Asia-Pacific’s ‘Climate Change: A Reporting Lens from Asia’ series

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