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title: "Current status of glacier"  
description: "A short explanation about the current situation of galcier"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-10-12  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2866/current-status-of-glacier  
category: "environment"  
tags: ["Glacier", "environment", "facts", "general knowledge", "global warming"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Current status of glacier

![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/2ab16ad0-ccbd-4c6c-9bac-79f902caa525.jpeg) ![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/b827f463-bdfd-4f2c-be18-814e94c8716e.jpeg) Due to climate change, the majority of glaciers worldwide are thinning out or vanishing. ![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/9201df5f-621d-45bd-a47c-9508ffa4a9d9.jpeg) The observed reference glaciers lost 0.8 m w.e. and 1.2 m w.e. of ice each in the hydrological years 2020/21 and 2021/22, respectively. ![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/2e77c981-291b-4057-bf3d-5d55f9c376a3.jpeg) Perhaps by 2050, glaciers are anticipated to lose 50–80% of their bulk, and Himalayan glaciers would have lost 30–50 percent of their mass. ![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/96a1b843-c00d-470c-9cab-45d28ea0df29.jpeg) Furthermore, It raising the risk of natural disasters, generating water shortages, and raising the sea level. ![Current status of glacier](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/0acb89a3-2b1a-4500-99de-7fa8914c03f6/images/2ab16ad0-ccbd-4c6c-9bac-79f902caa525.jpeg) If we do not take action to cut glasshouse gas emissions, scientists anticipate that glacier decline will continue to speed up in the upcoming decades

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