CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACTS · BY PAPER_HAZE
Nepal's Glaciers Are Retreating Faster Than Expected — and the Risk Is Downstream
Nepal has lost a third of its glacial ice in thirty years, and the melt rate has accelerated sharply in the last decade. What that means for the rivers, and the communities, below.
THE STORY SO FAR · 1 ENTRIES
29 AUGUST 2026
The Article
A United Nations-backed assessment published in 2023 put a specific number on something Himalayan researchers had been warning about in general terms for years: Nepal has lost roughly a third of its glacial ice volume over the past thirty years, and the pace of that…