New Delhi, March 21 -- The rate at which glaciers are melting across the Hindu Kush Himalayas has doubled since 2000, a new report by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has found, with the most recent decade recording increasingly frequent extreme melt years and mounting risks of catastrophic floods and long-term water insecurity for a region home to billions. The findings come on the back of visible consequences. The 2021 Chamoli disaster in the higher reaches of the Garhwal Himalayas involved the dislodgement of a glacieret and likely killed over 200 people; in October 2023, a devastating glacial lake outburst flood impacted South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, leading to deadly floods that killed over 50 people...