Neera Shrestha Pradhan is Senior Water and Adaptation Specialist, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD); Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa is Cryosphere Analyst, ICIMOD; and Sunita Chaudhary is Ecosystem Services Specialist, ICIMOD.

The Urgent Need to Preserve Glaciers in a Warming World

Worker installing stakes on one of the key benchmark glaciers of Rikha Samba Glacier Mustang, Nepal. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been doing this annually for 13 years. Photo: Tenzig Chogyal Sherpa
Team conducting DGPS survey at Rikha Samba Glacier in Nepal. Photo: Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa

Climate change and other drivers have accelerated glacier melt, threatening water security, biodiversity and regional economies.