(ORDO NEWS) — A new study on melting glaciers showed disappointing results. By 2100, more than 200 thousand glaciers will melt, which will lead to the flooding of 4 countries. Millions of people will be at risk.
Glaciers form icy rivers that take millions of years to form. They consist of highly compressed snow and sometimes form huge ice sheets and go into the sea.
Scientists from the University of Newcastle (Great Britain) conducted a study, the results of which are simply terrifying.
Due to the melting of glaciers, such countries as India, Pakistan, Peru and China were under threat. It is here that the population is most vulnerable to climate disasters.
A glacial lake is the result of melting glaciers. Warm seawater melts the glaciers below, and water surrounded by ice accumulates beneath them.
In the course of scientific work, natural disaster researcher Caroline Taylor came to the conclusion that 15 million people may be at risk, because the area where they live will be flooded.
This will happen if the huge Glacier Lake overflows and explodes. So far, these are only predictions, but they may come true.
Researchers said that breakthroughs of such lakes can cause floods.
Disasters happen so quickly that people simply do not have time to warn about the approaching disaster. Similar cases are already known in history, the paths of destruction stretched for hundreds of kilometers.
While studying this problem, scientists collected information about the state of glacial lakes, their size, number and volume.
Next, they focused on the study of those objects that have increased rapidly over the last decade, and performed a lot of mathematical calculations, taking into account the people who live downstream.
As it turned out, in the risk zone are not those countries that are located closest, but those that are least adapted to fighting floods and various natural disasters.
These countries turned out to be: India, Peru, Pakistan and China.
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