A glacier in Karakoram. Photo / Thinkstock
As glaciers around the world recede - some in Asia are bucking the trend and getting thicker.
A team of French scientists has used satellite images of glaciers in the Karakoram Range, west of the Himalayas, to show several glaciers are gaining mass, BBC News reports.
The scientists, from the
National Centre for Scientific Research and the University of Grenoble, compared two models of land surface deviation, one from 1999 and another from 2008.
While glaciers around the world are melting, including those in the nearby Himalayas, the glaciers in the 5615 sq km Karakoram region have increased marginally, although some glaciers had much larger gains than others.
Lead researcher Julie Gardelle told BBC News acquiring elevation models was not as easy as it sounds, with clear skies and reduced snow cover required.
