New Weather Patterns Are Turning Water From The Himalaya Glacier Into A Weapon

Modern buildings stand in the flood plains of the Nubra Valley, where the Nubra river flows into the Shyok river as part of the Indus River system, that separates the Ladakh and Karakaoram ranges in Nubra, Jamma and Kashmir, India, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. There is a body of evidence that global warming is disturbing water cycles on the roof of the world, and in unpredictable ways. Snow cover is shrinking, glaciers are melting, the monsoon season changing and permafrost is at risk, all with drastic consequences for a region whose ice fields hold the largest freshwater reserves outside the poles. Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg via Getty Images