- Chinese government backed study shows a sink in the glaciers on the Tibet plateau around 15% since 1980
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has discovered perennial frozen earth on the Tibetan plateau had also shrunk by 16 over 3 decades
- This is impacting significantly on the water security on the subcontinent; researchers have found that there is decrease of volume on frozen earth on the plateau
- Remote sensing and satellite monitoring were the tools used to perform the decade long research and these changes may result in immediate threat of global warming
- Meteorological data suggested that the average temperature has increased by 1.8 degrees
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/tibet-glaciers-have-shrunk-by-15-per-cent/article6135414.ece
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