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Discuss the variations in nature of glaciers in India and the emerging issues due to climate change.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Physical Setting

Indian glaciers are confined to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Trans-Himalaya, and they are not a single population behaving in a single way. They vary in form, in accumulation regime, in surface cover and — most consequentially — in how they are responding to warming.

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  • Variations in Nature
  • By form
  • By accumulation regime — the decisive contrast
  • By surface cover
  • The Karakoram anomaly
  • Emerging Issues Under Climate Change
  • …and 5 more sections, with a conclusion

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