Five months ago, two reports by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), an intergovernmental knowledge and learning centre focused on the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), warned that glaciers across the region were melting at an accelerating pace, with ice loss rates doubling since 2000.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), in its Changing Dynamics of Glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region from 1990 to 2020 and HKH Glacier Outlook 2026: Insights from 50 Years of Himalayan Glacier Monitoring, had warned that the region's glaciers had lost up to 27 metres of ice thickness since 1975.
