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Earth is warming but Mount Everest is getting chillier

Winds triggered by climate change sweep cold air down from the summit of Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks, leading to a cooling trend.
Ev-K2-CNR aka Italian Pyramid, a high-altitude scientific research center located near Mount Everest in the Khumbu Region of Nepal.

Measurements taken at the Pyramid International Laboratory–Observatory (pictured) show that temperatures at Mount Everest have fallen as global temperatures have risen. Credit: R.M. Nunes/Alamy

Temperatures at a weather station on Mount Everest have cooled even as the planet has warmed1.

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Nature 624, 477 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03805-w

References

  1. Salerno, F. et al. Nature Geosci. 16, 1120–1127 (2023).

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