Tibetan Plateau Glaciers May Turn More Unstable After Deadly Tibet-Nepal Flood
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Tibetan Plateau glaciers may turn more unstable after deadly Tibet-Nepal flood
China has warned that glaciers across the Tibetan Plateau are becoming more unstable after the deadly Tibet-Nepal disaster. Scientists say future risk assessments must track how such collapses rapidly intensify downstream.
On the 2nd, a government official from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China held a press conference in Jilong County, Shigatse City, regarding the mudslide disaster that occurred on the border between Nepal and China. Regarding the situation on the ground, he stated, "The melting of glaciers is accelerating due to the effects of global warming. In the border area…"
(Shanghai=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cha Byeong-seop = Following large-scale casualties caused by a landslide in the Himalayas near the China-Nepal border, in the future... in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other areas
With large-scale casualties caused by landslides in the Himalayas on the China-Nepal border, glacial disasters due to global warming could continue to occur in China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the future.
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have lost about a quarter of their area in the past six decades, and natural disasters similar to the Nepalese glacier collapse may become more frequent in the future, the deputy director of China's National Climate Center warned, according to an article in the South China Morning Post.
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