Inter Press Service: As climate change takes hold, even the mighty Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountain ranges are now losing their snow and ice. These are the world’s greatest repositories of snow and ice outside of the polar regions, and yet they may melt away in just 20 to 30 years, leaving more than a billion people desperately short of water, experts concluded in San Diego this week. “There’s been a super-rapid decline in the glaciers of the region,” said Charles Kennel, senior strategist at the …