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Pakistan Is Losing Its Glaciers to Climate Change   - New Lines Magazine

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The South Asian country boasts the largest number of these massive ice formations outside the polar regions, but what happens when they melt?

As the solid white ice peaks of Passu glacier sprawl down the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan, they resemble a row of emperor penguins braving the arctic winds. Wave-like blocks of ice encrusted with a black layer — likely collected from debris, avalanches and rockfalls over the centuries — leap down the mountainside. The glacier’s melted ice water serves as a source of fresh water, irrigation and hydroelectric power for the mountain communities that live in Hunza Valley, located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, which is part of the larger Kashmir region that…

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