The paper, at the start titled “Asia’s glaciers are a regionally crucial buffer in opposition to drought,” was subjected to an expression of subject in 2017 after researchers noticed that the author, Hamish Pritchard, of the British Antarctic Survey, had fallacious annual figures for water loss for decade-long water loss figures. It become retracted in February 2018, and is now republished as “Asia’s shrinking glaciers protect large populations from drought stress.”