Nepal will mark the rapid melting of a crucial glacier with a “funeral” next week as scientists warn that climate change threatens thousands of other ice sheets across the world.
Buddhist monks, scientists, government officials and community figures will take part in a ceremony on Monday at the Yala glacier, one of the most studied and measured ice bodies in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, which is now considered critically endangered.
So-called glacier funerals have been held in Iceland, Mexico and Switzerland in recent years, but Monday’s service is the first in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which holds the third largest volume of ice on Earth after the two polar geographic zones.
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