From Courier Mail: China’s largest lake, holy to Tibetans but suffering from global warming and desertification, may vanish in two centuries even as the government pledges $870 million to stop it shrinking, Xinhua news agency said today. Desertification had been brought about by overgrazing around Lake Qinghai, in the remote western province of Qinghai, which […]
From Reuters via the Boston Globe [link]: A decade ago, Longben Cairao would have been in deep water. Today he stands on firm ground on Erlangjian, a sandspit named after a mythical sword in a classical Chinese tale that curves about 2-1/2 miles out into Lake Qinghai, China’s largest expanse of inland water.”This wasn’t here […]
From the Guardian: In autumn and spring, the migration of hundreds of thousands of birds is such a glorious sight that Qinghai Lake draws tourists from all over the world. But after the first mass outbreak of avian flu among wild birds this summer, the resort is attracting attention from a different group of bird […]
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