Warming of plateau is 'threatening all Asia'
By Miao Xiaojuan from Xinhua | China Daily | Updated: 2009-08-18 07:51
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A train passes through part of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the Dangxiong grassland in Tibet. The area is among the most vulnerable places on the planet to global warming, experts are warning. Xinhua |
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the most susceptible areas on the planet to global warming, is heating up at such an alarming rate that experts fear it will suffer environmental deterioration and water shortages that may threaten the entire continent.
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