The Director of the National Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyzstan, Kanat Abdrakhmatov, published photographs on social media demonstrating the changing state of glaciers in Issyk-Kul region.
According to him, the glaciers are rapidly disappearing.
As an example, Abdrakhmatov cited the Jerooy glacier, showing photographs from 1962 and 2003 that show a significant reduction in its area.
«First, small glaciers (less than a square kilometer in area) disappear, and then the large ones, of which only a few remain,» he noted.
Kanat Abdrakhmatov emphasized that the changes are particularly noticeable on the southern shore of the lake.
