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Event Series Highlights Threats to Tibet’s Glaciers

June 20, 2019;

Tibet accounts for an estimated 14.5 percent of the world’s total glacier mass, but climate change and air pollution are an increasing threat to the nation’s glaciers. The retreat of these glaciers causes grasslands to shrink and permafrost to thaw. It also … Continued

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  1. China confirms its southern glaciers are disappearing
  2. Nepal earthquake highlights dangers of dam building in Tibet
  3. Climate change: Tibet sees receding glaciers, shrinking permafrost
  4. Tibet’s Glaciers in Danger
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