Glaciers in China that are a critical source of water for drinking and irrigation in India are receding fast, according to a new comprehensive inventory. In the short term, retreating glaciers may release greater meltwater, “but it will be exhausted when glaciers disappear under a continuous warming,” says Liu Shiyin, who led the survey for the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute in Lanzhou.news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2014/12/china-confirms-its-southern-glaciers-are-disappearing
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:02:30 +0000
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