{"id":31859,"date":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31859"},"modified":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T05:22:37","slug":"study-90-of-himalaya-ice-could-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31859","title":{"rendered":"Study: 90% of Himalaya ice could disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>At least a third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, an area that includes the world&#8217;s highest peaks Mount Everest and K2, could melt by the end of this century according to an assessment <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-92288-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">released Monday<\/a> &#8212; even if there is aggressive action to curb greenhouse gases and meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The report highlights previous studies that predicted glacier volumes in this region<strong> <\/strong>could decline between 45% and 90% through the 21st century.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Rising temperatures are a serious threat to the eight countries including China, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Fresh water from the region&#8217;s glaciers flows into 10 major river basins, contributing to the drinking water, irrigation and energy needs of approximately 1.9 billion people, or about a quarter of the world&#8217;s population. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)At least a third of the ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, an area that includes the world&#8217;s highest peaks Mount Everest and K2, could melt by the end of this century according to an assessment released Monday &#8212; even if there is aggressive action to curb greenhouse gases and meet the goals of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}