Asia’s shrinking glaciers protect large populations from drought stress

About 800 million people depend in part on meltwater from the thousands of glaciers in the high mountains of Asia. Water stress makes this region vulnerable to drought, but glaciers are a uniquely drought-resilient source of water. Here I show that seasonal glacier meltwater is equivalent to the bas...

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Vydáno v:	Nature (London) Ročník 569; číslo 7758; s. 649 - 654
Hlavní autor:	Pritchard, Hamish D.
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 30.05.2019 Nature Publishing Group
Témata:	704/106/125 704/242 704/4111 Acclimatization Asia Basins Dehydration - prevention & control Drought Droughts Economic development Ecosystem Freezing Glacier melting Glaciers Humanities and Social Sciences Humans Hydrology Ice Cover - chemistry Meltwater Mountains multidisciplinary Politics Populations Precipitation Rain Regional development Risk reduction River basins Rivers Science Science (multidisciplinary) Seasons Temperature Water scarcity Water shortages Water stress Water supply Water Supply - statistics & numerical data Asia Afghanistan Pakistan United States > US Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Nepal India
ISSN:	0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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