He stopped snow in the Himalayas.
As a result, the water supplies two billion people threatened.
The mountain chain reaches 2,500 km from Afghanistan in the west to Myanmar in the east.
High peaks and valleys are covered with ice – or they should be.
The annual snow -melting cycle feeds on 12 main river basins that raise their way through the middle and eastern landscapes.
These are the main water sources of dozens of countries, but the measurements revealed a steady decrease in the snow that falls across the Himalayas in recent decades.
This season, it decreased to the lowest level in 23 years.
“This is a trend that warns of danger,” says Sher Mohamed.
“We are monitoring such situations that occur in the ongoing caliphate.”
Some rivers suffer more than others.
The Hkh Snow Update 2025 report reveals the snow gatherings of Mekong and Salwen rivers feeding on Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia less than 50 percent of the average.
Chinese yangste gatherings have 26 percent less snow. The Gang River in India and Bangladesh decreased by 24 percent.
As is the bond that nourishes Kashmir and Pakistan.
Low snowfall will not be a problem if this is an event for one time, but the UNDRR's UNDR office says this has happened in five years of past six years.
It is an acceleration of the direction that was observed during the past quarter and the impacts of this trend.
“Australian policy makers greatly reduce how national security climate change and regional stability across the Pacific,” Mike College's Australian Strategic Policy analyst (ASPI) warns Mike Collage.
Dryness
Low snow in the Himalaya Mountains means less melted in the spring and less insulation for any ice or ice below it.
Less dissolved spring means the flow of water is less, and this in turn means less soaking to re -fill the groundwater basins.
Snow is not the only source of water for the main Himalayan. While each river differs, the snow, on average, contributes to about a quarter of all the surface flow of annual water.
But researchers say that the ongoing snow deficit contributes to changing flow patterns and low water levels.
Icimod says: “(this means) is a water stress early in the summer, especially for the estuary societies, which are already reeling under the premature heat attacks and intensifying all over the region.”
The Chinese Chinese river basin is an example.
The continued snow (the period of snow on the ground) fell from 98 percent higher than the average in 2008 to -54 percent in 2023.
“The pelvis continues to face deficit (albeit in -18.6 % in 2025),” says the report.
“Such a continuous deficit in agriculture, water availability, and water availability.”
It is a story similar to the Yangti basin in China.
Snowfall this year disappeared by 26 percent faster than the average.
The report says: “The decline in snow snow steadily exposes the efficiency of the electromagnetic energy of the Three Gorges.”
It is a story similar to all the electrical energy projects fueled by the Himalayas and the agricultural areas.
The UNDRR UNDR) urges Asian countries to take immediate action.
Billions spending on improved water management systems, stronger drought, best early warning systems, and larger regional cooperation is the first step.
“Carbon emissions have already been imprisoned in an irreversible path of frequent snowy cases in the Himalayas,” the general manager of Icimod Pema Gyamtsho warns.
“We urgently need to adopt a typical transformation towards the policies based on science and renewed regional reinforcement in the field of border water management and emissions.”
But the experience is not unique in Asia.
The Arral Sea has shrunk between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to a small part of its original size in recent decades.
The Caspian Sea Russia-the largest lake in the world-is at a rapid decline, and Lake Chad has evaporated in central West Africa by up to 90 percent. “
Worse than that
Himalaya ice gatherings and wide rains are subject to various climate effects.
Previously, the weather patterns can only provide little hope in improving water supply in Southeast Asia.
The weather style in La Niña disappeared for this year after only a few months.
This is the cold stage of the southern volatile cycle of the ninho, and it is the exchange of a long -awaited natural temperature across the Pacific.
The warm ninho generally turns into cold Nenia every two years to seven years.
La Niña was to replace the last Nino in mid -2014. He did not arrive until December.
Now, the National Oceanic and Air Force Administration (NOAA) stated that it evaporated in March.
“Just a few months after the circumstances of La Niña, the Pacific Ocean is now neutral, and the predictors expect to continue in the summer of the northern hemisphere (Australian winter),” says Emily Baker, a researcher at Miami University.
Historically, La Niña is associated with an increase in rains in Southeast Asia and Chinese India.
NOAA warns of the neutral ENSO phase in general.
“Neenio events can include drought and extreme heat, while La Niña events can include severe rain and severe floods,”
“It is expected that up to 1.5 ° C of global warming will double the frequency of extremist Nino events and enlarge rainfall fluctuations in the Nenio -La Nonia weather cycle.”
Asia suffers more than other global climate change, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization notes.
The successive dehydration produced a large number of destructive heat waves.
These destroyed storms and floods have been topped and turned into an unavoidable direction.
The Asian Development Bank predicted that the yield of rice from Indonesia to Vietnam will decrease by 50 percent by 2100 without urgent and costly climate air conditioning measures.
“While the physical effects of climate change are already intensify, the most common results in the world will arise from social, economic and political turmoil that are difficult to predict or manage isolated disaster events.”
“Given a global context already unstable for high geopolitical tensions, climatic effects will only lead to an amplification of this volatility.”
