Unstable Tibetan Plateau risks cascading disasters as glacier losses mount
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(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.
Analyzing over the past few decades, glacial landslides and other glacier-related disasters are actually increasing in frequency, and severity
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