China: Plateau in Peril

Posted 29 January 2009 19:29 GMT

Countries	China
Topics	Education, Environment, Citizen Media

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Français	· Chine : le Plateau tibétain et le réchauffement climatique
Italiano	· Cina: i rischi dell'effetto serra sull'altopiano tibetano
বাংলা	· চীন: মালভূমি হুমকির মুখে
繁體中文	· 中國：西藏高原暖化危機
简体中文	· 中国：西藏高原暖化危机

A newly launched interactive site ‘China Green' focuses on China's environmental and climate issues. The first project is about Tibetan Plateau, shows how the effects of global warming on the plateau is posing a grave threat to a third of humanity. This is because most of Asia's might river systems find their headwaters from the plateau.

Below is a trailer of the project, click to watch.

The site includes many more videos, interviews and interactive slideshows that depict changes in the glaciers of Mt. Everest.

Written by Juliana Rotich
Posted 29 January 2009 19:29 GMT ·

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kowshik ahmed

thanks for the post, this is really alarming

# 30 January 2009, 5:12 am

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Yantao

I am a Chinese, but I have never been to the Tibetan Plateau. Hope I will have a chance to go there in the near future.

# 30 January 2009, 5:48 am

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