A melt-off of the plateau’s glaciers would send shockwaves around the world. It would not only accelerate climate warming and raise sea levels; it would also imperil the water resources of hundreds of millions of people, as the glaciers feed three of Asia’s largest rivers: the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong.
søndag 25. august 2024
The Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Is Turning Into a Vast Grassland, Study Finds
A major Chinese study has found that climate change is already causing profound environmental changes on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, transforming the mountainous region into a vast grassland. Scientists have been worried about the potential impact of a warming planet on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau for decades. The area — which stretches from the Himalayas to the Kunlun Mountains in western China — holds the planet’s third largest concentration of ice and snow after the polar regions.
A melt-off of the plateau’s glaciers would send shockwaves around the world. It would not only accelerate climate warming and raise sea levels; it would also imperil the water resources of hundreds of millions of people, as the glaciers feed three of Asia’s largest rivers: the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong.
A melt-off of the plateau’s glaciers would send shockwaves around the world. It would not only accelerate climate warming and raise sea levels; it would also imperil the water resources of hundreds of millions of people, as the glaciers feed three of Asia’s largest rivers: the Yellow, Yangtze, and Mekong.
