Bhutan’s glaciers at risk

Summit Voice: After significant warming during half century, about 10 percent of Bhutan`s glaciers are likely to disappear within the next few decades -- even if regional and global temperatures were to stabilize at current levels. "These particular glaciers have seen so much warming in the past few decades that they`re currently playing lots of catch up,” Brigham Young University geology professor Summer Rupper said after studying climate and glaciers in the Himalaya. Rupper`s most conservative findings......

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