The warming trend in the Himalayas is higher than the global average – a cause for grave concern. The Himalayas, with the greatest concentration of ice outside the polar regions (and hence dubbed ‘the third pole’), is ‘the water tower of Asia’, providing water to 1.3 billion people, a fifth of the world’s population.
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