UNEP/GRID-Arendal's report 'High mountain glaciers and climate change, Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation' highlights the vulnerability and exposure of people dependent upon these rivers to floods, droughts and eventually shortages as a result of changes in the melting and freezing cycles linked with climate change and other pollution impacts.
Year: 2012
From album: Glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas
Photographer:
Lawrence Hislop
Tags:
Nepal