image: This is the Kimjung Glacier in Lantang valley, Nepal (a clean ice glacier). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 20, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Tobias Bolch at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "The State and Fate of Himalayan Glaciers." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya, ICIMOD