{"id":1228,"date":"2026-06-11T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:08:41","slug":"hindu-kush-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/hindu-kush-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Kush Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Hindu Kush Himalayas<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>About<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is a mountain arc\u00a0<strong>stretching\u00a03,500 km\u00a0across 8 countries:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh,\u00a0Myanmar\u00a0and Bhutan.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Home to thousands of glaciers and large river basins<\/strong>\u00a0such as\u00a0<strong>Ganga, Indus, Brahmaputra,\u00a0Yangtze, Irrawaddy,\u00a0Mekong\u00a0and Amu Darya<\/strong>, they support the food and livelihood security of about two billion people in this region of Asia.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Often referred to as the\u00a0<strong>\u201cThird Pole\u201d or the \u201cWater Tower of Asia\u201d,\u00a0<\/strong>this region\u00a0<strong>stores more ice and snow than anywhere else on Earth outside of the Arctic and Antarctic<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-12.png 624w, https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-12-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>Impact of Climate Change<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>According to the United Nations, glaciers across the globe are rapidly thinning, with those in the\u00a0<strong>HKH region experiencing the most dramatic losses due to climate change<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<strong>retreating 65 per cent faster in 2011-2020<\/strong>\u00a0than in the\u00a0previous\u00a0decade.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If<strong>\u00a0global temperatures rise by 1.5\u00b0C to 2\u00b0C,<\/strong>\u00a0glacier volume in the HKH region could\u00a0<strong>decline by 30-50 per cent by 2100<\/strong>. If<strong>\u00a0warming exceeds 2\u00b0C,<\/strong>\u00a0the region may lose\u00a0<strong>45 per cent of its 2020 glacier volume.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu Kush Himalayas About Impact of Climate Change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-in-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/materials.simplycurrentaffairs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}