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Climate Change in Tibet

December 8, 2022;

The lakes on the Tibetan plateau are showing a trend of delated freezing and of melting, reports the website Sixth Tone, “fresh voices from today’s China”, citing a new study by the state-backed China Academy of Sciences and published in Scientific Data, Nature’s open access scientific journal. The report says that some 6,000 glaciers have disappeared from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the average temperature increased at twice the global average rate.

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