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Gulbara Omorova, a glaciologist, highlights the rapid disappearance of glaciers in the Kyrgyz mountains due to climate change.
Central Asia is experiencing severe weather events linked to rising temperatures, threatening water security and food supply.
Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov warns that glaciers in the region could halve by 2050 and vanish entirely by 2100, signaling an urgent environmental crisis.
Petrov glacier
Petrov glacier and its proglacial lake are situated in the Akshiirak massif, central Tien Shan in Kyrgyzstan
Proterozoic granitoids surround the accumulation area of Petrov glacier in the central part of the Akshiirak massif.
Kyrgyzstan's Naryn River, born near the Petrov Glacier
Central asian countries
Subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and European Russia in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Siberia in the north.
It includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
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