From Reuters via China Daily (link):
Glaciers covering China’s Qinghai–Tibet plateau are shrinking by 7 percent a year due to global warming and the environmental consequences may be dire, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
Rising temperatures that have accelerated the melting of glaciers across the “roof of the world” will eventually turn tundra that spans Tibet and surrounding high country into desert, the agency quoted Professor Dong Guangrong with the Chinese Academy of Sciences as saying.
Dong warned the deterioration of the plateau may trigger more droughts and increase sandstorms that lash western and northern China. He reached his conclusions after analysing four decades of data from China’s 681 weather stations.
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