Asian News International: If reports are to be believed, the Tibetan glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply. Throughout India, China, and Nepal, some 15,000 glaciers speckle the Tibetan Plateau, some of the highest land in the world. According to a report in Discovery News, though the ice is perched in thin, frigid air up to 7,200 meters (23,622 feet) above sea level, research has shown that it has not …