Wednesday, May 28, 2014

RETREATING GLACIERS- China



China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been shrinking rapidly which indicates that the climate change is leading to rapid melting of glaciers at an altitude of above 6300m. The report published by Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proved that the glaciers have shrunk by 15 per cent from 5,300,000 ha to 4,500,000 ha over the past three decades.
May 22

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