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No ice lost in the Karakoram

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The fate of glaciers in the greater Himalaya is widely discussed, but poorly known. A new measurement in the central Karakoram mountain range suggests that glacier mass change in this region contributes to sea-level rise nearly 0.05 mm per year less than has been thought.

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Figure 1: Panmah Glacier, Karakoram range, Pakistan.

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  1. Graham Cogley is in the Department of Geography, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada,

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Cogley, G. No ice lost in the Karakoram. Nature Geosci 5, 305–306 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1456

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