Apr 21, 2021

Repeat photography: Pokhalde glacier

 

 1956  |  2007
 Pokhalde Glacier Himalayas


1956 picture taken by Erwin Schneider, courtesy of the Association for Comparative Alpine Research, Munich. 2007 image photographed by Alton Byers of the Mountain Institute.

The preliminary studies done through repeat photography shows the loss of glaciers in Himalayas. The rapid glacier melting due to climate change is one of the drivers that accelerate the delta- building processes in the active delta in Bangladesh.

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