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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Some Glaciers Growing Due to Climate Change, Study Suggests


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The snowcapped peaks of the Karakoram mountain range rise above irrigation systems in the Hunza region of Pakistan's Indus River Basin.

Some glaciers in the country's Western Himalaya, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges appear to be growing, according to new research. The find bucks a global trend of shrinking ice fields that is frequently attributed to global warming—suggesting that climate change is having a unique but possibly temporary effect on Pakistan's glaciers.

Photograph courtesy David Archer/University of Newcastle