Thimphu, March 20 -- Bhutan's glaciers are disappearing faster than previously understood, with new evidence showing an alarming loss of ice across the country's fragile mountain ecosystems, a new international study said on Thursday.
More than 500 glaciers have already vanished in the wider Bhutanese Himalaya over the past five decades, according to the study presented at an online media forum, alongside major regional assessments by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
The study, published in Remote Sensing, reports that 524 glaciers in the Bhutanese Himalayan region have become extinct since themid-1970s. Using satellite imagery from 1976 to 2024, researchers documented a sharp decline in both the numb...