Mount Everest's ice is melting by 2 meters per year

Scientists at the University of Maine have monitored the thinning of Mount Everest's ice layer by two meters per year.

The university said that it became clear to researchers that the ice of Everest annually loses an amount of ice that has accumulated over several decades, due to climatic changes resulting from human activity.

The researchers used data obtained from analyzing ice samples taken from the summit of Everest, and data recorded by automatic weather stations installed at high altitudes. Fresh water, on which millions of people depend.

The rate of melting of the ice of Everest is about two meters per year.

Since the fixed ice cover has disappeared, it has reduced its ability to reflect sunlight and increased the speed of melting, and researchers stated that during a quarter of a century the thickness of the ice cover decreased by 55 meters, and this is 80 times faster than the speed of ice accumulation during 2000 years, according to what I mentioned RT Arabia.

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