Glacial Retreat threatens Food Supplies for Millions
A Greenpeace team travelled to Everest to see the Middle Rongbuk glacier to compare it with pictures taken in 1968. They found that it had moved back an estimated 2km, which is very worrying and raises fears that millions will soon be at risk because of the glacier’s important role as a water source to China and India’s rivers. The Halong glacier in the A’nyemaqen mountains, which is one of the Yellow River source glaciers, has also shrunk.
In a Yorkshire Post report, Charlie Kronick, head of the climate and energy campaign for Greenpeace UK, said the retreat of the glaciers was “absolutely clear” and warned people will soon be affected.
He said, “The really worrying thing is that a sixth of the world’s population, or nearly a billion people in eastern Asia, depend on the water locked up in these glaciers.”
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