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And what’s more, that certain glaciers can have different genders including male and female.
Local Glacier Growers ‘breed’ new glaciers by grafting together—or marrying— fragments of ice from male and female glaciers, then covering them with charcoal, wheat husks, cloths, or willow branches so they can reproduce.
Under their protective coverings, these glacierets transform into fully active glaciers that grow each year with additional snowfall.
These practices have spread to other cultures, where people are creating their own versions of glaciers and applying them to solve serious modern challenges around water supplies.
As local glaciers shrink because of climate change, regional water scarcity is increasing.
And so, local people have started growing their own glaciers as insurance against this uncertainty.
These glaciers come in two types: horizontal, and vertical.
Horizontal glaciers are formed when farmers redirect glacier meltwater into channels and pipes, then carefully siphon it off into a series of basins made from stones and earth.
Local people make vertical glaciers using the meltwater from already-existing glaciers high above their villages.
In fact, people are now growing their own glaciers in many regions beyond Ladakh.
Perhaps one day we’ll be able to harness our homegrown glaciers well enough to build whole walls of ice– this time not for keeping people out, but to enable life in some of the planet’s harshest landscapes.
He took all his ministers all the way up to the base camp of Everest to warn the world that the Himalayan glaciers were melting.
Otherwise, if we can't, the glaciers would melt much faster.
And yes, the glaciers, they are melting.
What if our glaciers melt much more quickly than I anticipate?
What if our glaciers are much more vulnerable than previously thought?
Scientists and experts have studied our glaciers for decades, and their report kept me awake at night, agonizing about the bad news and what it meant for my country and my people.
Number one: the Hindu Kush Himalaya glaciers have been melting for some time now.
At two degrees centigrade of global warming, half the glaciers would disappear.
And if current trends were to continue, a full two-thirds of our glaciers would vanish.
Number three: global warming means that our mountains receive more rain and less snow ... and, unlike snowfall, rain melts ice, which just hurts the health of our glaciers.
Number four: pollution in the region has increased the amount of black carbon that's deposited on our glaciers.
Black carbon absorbs heat and just accelerates the melting of glaciers.
To summarize, our glaciers are melting rapidly, and global warming is making them melt much more quickly.
When glaciers melt, when there's more rain and less snow, there will be huge changes in the way water behaves.
But when glaciers melt, when monsoons turn severe, those rivers will obviously flood, so there will be deluges when water is not required and droughts will be very common, when water is desperately required.
So we must care, all of us, and if you can't care for those who are affected by the melting of glaciers, you should at least care for yourself.
One obvious scenario is the potential destabilization caused by tens of millions of climate refugees, who'll be forced to move because they have no or little water, or because their livelihoods have been destroyed by the melting of glaciers.
To work together to monitor the health of the glaciers; to work together to shape and implement policies to protect our glaciers, and, by extension, to protect the billions of people who depend on our glaciers.
They must take the ownership of the fight to protect our glaciers.
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