China’s glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing ...

China is staring at a water crisis in the mid-to-long term after the latest climate data showed a rapidly depleting glacial ...

China approved the world's largest hydropower project to begin construction, citing the economic benefits and need to shift ...

The 9,000 gigatons of ice lost since 1975 are equivalent to a piece of ice the size of Germany, 25 meters thick ...

March 21 marked the first "World Day for Glaciers". The Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held the second Qinghai-Tibet Glacier and Development Scientific Action ...

From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their ...

Glacier retreat also poses new disaster risks. China’s glaciers are located mainly in the west and north of the country, in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, and the provinces of Sichuan ...

THE glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 due to rapid global warming, with 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely and glacial retreat intensifying in recent years, official data released in ...

Glacier retreat also poses new disaster risks. China's glaciers are located mainly in the west and north of the country, in the regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, and the provinces of Sichuan ...