Himalayas

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Over half of the world’s population lives in watersheds of major rivers originating in mountains with glaciers and snow. A warming climate is now causing a global recession in glaciers, and some areas may lose their glaciers entirely in this century.

Year: 2012

From album: Glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas

Photographer: Lawrence Hislop

Tags: mountains

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Agricultural land around the Himalayas

Agricultural land, Nepal

Agricultural produce, Nepal

Alpine Accentor (Prunilla collaris), Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Ama Dablam, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

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Butterfly, Gorkha Region, Nepal

Cattle, Nepal

Crop in Nepal

Domestic Yaks (Bos grunniens) used for transport into the high mountains of the Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Drying Rice, village in the Gorkha Region, Nepal

Eroding abandoned farmland, Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal

Farming in the Gorkha Region, Nepal

Fish, Nepal

Flag and Himalayas

Glacial River Bed, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Glacial River in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal

Gorakshep, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Himalaya mountain top

Himalayan River

Himalayan river bridge

Himalayas

Himalayas and township

Himalaya Vulture (Gyps himalayensis), Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Irrigation channel, Nepal

Irrigation system, Nepal

Kathmandu City, Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Khumbu Glacier, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Meat drying, Nepal

Namche Bazaar, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Nepalese township

Nepalese township and Himalayas

Rhododendron Forest in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal

Road construction, Nepal

Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest

Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Sherpa carrying food to the villages in the Sagarmatha National Park, Himalaya, Nepal

Shop window along a trail in the Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Stove, Nepal

Tengboche Monastery, Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal

Township in Nepal

Township nearby the Himalayas

Village, Nepal

Woman working in field, Nepal

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