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Glacier retreat surges across Bhutanese Himalaya

ཟླ་༢ 21, 2026 2 mins read
Glacier retreat surges across Bhutanese Himalaya

Bhutan’s Himalayan glaciers are vanishing at an accelerating pace, with more than 500 small ice bodies disappearing across the wider Bhutanese Himalayan region over the past half-century, according to a new international study.

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