Environment Until recently, the Pamir mountains in central Asia have bucked the global melting trend, but in 2025, the region’s glaciers experienced a massive loss of ice due to extreme heat Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email The Kongur Shan mountains in China, part of the Pamir range Mark Andrews/Alamy One of the world’s last stable glacier regions may have finally begun to succumb to global warming, with researchers recording an unprecedented loss of ice across the Pamir mountains of Asia. For decades, glaciers all over the world have been retreating due to rising temperatures, but in central Asia, a region dubbed “the roof of the world” has bucked this trend. From the 1970s to the early 21st century, glaciers in the western Kunlun mountains, the Karakoram mountains and the eastern Pamir mountains have remained stable or grown slightly.…