如果冰川消失，未来将更加不堪。

If that ice disappears, the future will almost certainly be worse.

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但在过去的50年里，36%的冰川消失了。

But in the past 50 years, the glaciers have lost about 36 percent of their mass.

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冰层迅速融化正在增加夏季河水的流量，预示着当冰川消失，河水流量就会减少，并完全依赖于雨水。

The rapid melting is increasing summer river flows - but it raises the prospect that when the glaciers are gone, flows will diminish and depend entirely on the rains.

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