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This danger zone of ice breaking in the Himalayas is increasing day by day. Once again the glacier breaking in Chamoli has created an atmosphere of panic. This picture is of Kuber mountain near Badrinath Dham. A river of ice emerging from the glacier can be seen flowing rapidly through the mountains.
When the local people captured this incident on their mobile phones, they screamed in fear. There was chaos among the local people for some hours.
Glacier break in Chamoli is a dangerous sign for the future. Chamoli is counted among the sensitive areas of India in terms of glacier break. Seeing this picture, many people remembered the horrific incident of glacier break near Mana village in February.
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Fortunately, this time there was no damage due to glacier break and neither was the residential areas around Badrinath Dham affected . But the Himalayas have been put on alert.
Actually, the possibility of glacier breaking in Chamoli was expressed in April itself. There was no trace of snow in Badrinath Dham at that time.
Usually in the month of April, the Himalayan peaks near Badrinath are covered with snow. But this time the snow had melted. There was no snow even at the beginning of the journey to the Dham. This was considered a dangerous sign of nature. Chamoli district has Nanda Devi and Kamet along with other mountain ranges between which many glaciers are present.
These days, the possibility of glacier lake outburst has increased more than before. Global warming has started affecting these glaciers of Chamoli. Experts say that the thick layer of snow acts as a strong cover over the glacier. This snow cover prevents the sun's radiation from reaching the glacier. But these days the snow has started melting rapidly due to which this cover is getting destroyed.
This has increased the risk of glacier breaking. Due to melting of glaciers in the Himalayas, new glacier lakes are being formed. These lakes are bound by a wall of snow and mud. Their breaking causes floods in the lower areas. Such lakes have been identified in Uttarakhand. Five of these are in Chamoli and in Pithoragarh, which have been kept in the high risk category.
The glacier is sliding rapidly and there is no balance between its two parts, the upper part and the lower part. This could also be one reason. Another reason could be that it suddenly encounters such a steep slope that it is unable to adjust because the snow is hard. It is not elastic. So, the chances of it breaking also increase due to its being brittle.
The third reason could also be that due to excessive snowfall, an imbalance is created and the temperature fluctuation that is happening in the environment these days, whether it suddenly gets hot or cold, also increases the melting rate of the glacier and due to the melting rate, its speed also increases.
Four years ago, a massive disaster occurred due to the breaking of the glacier in Reni of Chamoli. At that time, there was a flood in the Rishi Ganga river and people died.
There are natural cracks in the high altitude area of Chamoli, where snow remains buried in millions of cubic meters of rock and a large portion of ice broke and fell, causing devastation.
The breaking of the glacier on Chamoli's Kuber mountain is a warning. Be careful in time.
Team News Nation
Actually, due to global warming, the thermal profile of ice in the Himalayas has changed. For example, the ice which used to have a temperature in degrees Celsius is rising. That means the nature of ice is getting affected. This increasing temperature is creating a danger of the glacier breaking easily. The effect of which is also visible.
Due to less snowfall and irregular weather, the pressure on the Himalayan glaciers has increased and is continuously increasing. Shrinking of glaciers makes the rocks unstable, weakens them and this increases the chances of their breaking.
There are many recent studies and researches which show that the hydrological and thermal balance in the glacier area is deteriorating. Due to which the situation is continuously deteriorating. Not only in Uttarakhand, but in the larger Himalayan range where devotion is present in every word, stories are hidden, and astrology gives direction to life to know everything related to religion,
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