Weather & Science
UN Starts World’s Biggest Glacier-Mapping Project in Pakistan
- Surveys in flood-hit nation to be completed in next 1.5 years
- Warmer climate has worsened melting at over 5,000 glaciers
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The United Nations is working to map glaciers in northern Pakistan to quantify the melting of ice caused by warming temperatures and set up early-warning systems to help the recently flood-hit nation adapt better to future climate risks.
The UN Development Program plans to map 5,000 glaciers in the next eighteen months, Knut Ostby, the agency’s resident representative in Pakistan, said in an interview. The South Asian nation is home to the world’s largest number of glaciers.