Glaciers Without Borders
climatewithoutborders.substack.com/p/glaciers-without-borders
"High Mountain Asia, which overlaps with seven out of the ten countries in the HKKH, is home to the world’s largest reservoir of perennial glaciers and snow outside of the Earth’s polar ice sheets."
![The HKH [Hindu Kush Himalaya] region extends 3,500 km over all or part of eight countries from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east. It is the source of ten large Asian river systems – the Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra (Yarlungtsanpo), Irrawaddy, Salween (Nu), Mekong (Lancang), Yangtse (Jinsha), Yellow River (Huanghe), and Tarim (Dayan) – and provides water, ecosystem services, and the basis for livelihoods to a population of around 240 million people in the region. The basins of these rivers provide water to 1.9 billion people, a fourth of the world’s population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5q3om4c4bnightac7cptldrz/bafkreiaa3fc6t6p5vax65gninjhfrdll3keqznlaw26frzgecvs2nlu6li)
