Ice loss at high elevations threatens water supply for hundreds of millions of people.

 

The Tibetan glaciers are shrinking. Most of the retreat is thought to be taking place at low elevations, but research now shows that the glaciers may also be losing ice at altitudes up to 6,000 metres.

 

“The glaciers are virtually being decapitated from the top by a warming climate,” says Kang Shichang, a glaciologist at Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing.

This news reports only on two glaciers and one location each. Hopefully these locations were poor choices to take samples.

It's sad that children born in the next few years will need to google, "what were glaciers?" in the past tense.