According to the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, given the largest glacial massive loss on records over the last three years, the glaciers worldwide disappear much faster than ever, opening the new tab on Friday.
“Michael Zamp, director of the Switzerland -based World Glacier Monitoring Service, announced a report at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva, saying during a press conference,” 9,000 gigtons of ice lost to the ice are equal to ice equal to a ice block “equal to an ice block” with a thickness of 25 meters.
From South America to the Tibetan plateau, the loss of dramatic ice from Arctic to Alps, opens a new tab, expected to accelerate as climate change, due to the burning of fossil fuels, pushes the global temperature more. This will probably increase economic, environmental and social problems worldwide as the sea level increases and these major water sources decrease.
The report coincides with a UNESCO summit in Paris, marking the first world day for glaciers, urging global action to protect glaciers worldwide.
The Zamp said that five of the last six years recorded the biggest losses, with glaciers losing 450 gigatan mass alone.
Quick disadvantage has made hilly glaciers one of the largest contributors for increasing sea level, there is a danger of devastating floods and damage to water routes that billions of people are dependent on hydroelectric energy and agriculture.
Stephen Uhlenbrook, director of water and cryosphor at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), said that about 275,000 glaciers live globally, which are in the world, with an Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet, about 70% of the new water in the world.
“We need to pursue our scientific knowledge, we need to proceed through better observation systems, better forecasting and better initial warning systems for the planet and people,” said Uhlenbrook.
Danger and deity
Around 1.1 billion people live in the mountainous communities, suffering from the most immediate effects of the loss of glacier, due to natural hazards and rising risks with incredible water sources. The remote places and difficult areas also make cheap reforms difficult.
Rising temperatures are expected to cause drought in areas that rely on snowopaks for freshwater, while avalanche, landslides, flash floods and glacial lake outbreaks increase both seriousness and frequency of dangers such as floods.
A Peruian farmer has taken the issue living under one retreat glacier to court, sueing the German energy veteran RWE for a part of the flood of Glassial Lake, which is in proportion to its historical global emissions.
Glasiologist Heidi Sevestre at the Secretariat of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, “The changes we are seeing in the region are truly heartbreaking.” Roots Outside UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Wednesday.
“Things are actually happening very fast in some areas, as we estimated,” the recent visit to the Rheeenzori Mountains in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in East Africa, “Savestre said.
Sevestre has worked with the indigenous Bakonzo communities of the region, believing that a deity named Kitasamba lives in glaciers.
“Can you imagine a deep spiritual relationship, this strong attachment that they have towards glaciers and what can it mean for them that their glaciers are disappearing?” Savestre said.
According to the new Endsco report by Glassel Melt in East Africa, local conflicts on water have increased, and while the impact globally is minimal, the trickle of melting the glaciers worldwide is having a compounding effect.
Between 2000 and 2023, the global sea level has increased 18 mm per year due to melting of mountain glaciers, which is about 1 mm per year. According to the World Glacier Monitoring Service, each millimeter can expose 300,000 people for annual floods.
“Billions of people are associated with glaciers, whether they know it or not, and they will need billions of people to protect them.
