Ice Core Samples Reveal Black Soot Threatening Tibetan Glaciers
Posted by Jimalakirti in Climate Change
at 12:30 pm on Thursday, 17 December 2009
at 12:30 pm on Thursday, 17 December 2009
Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, sometimes called Earth’s “third pole,” hold the largest ice mass outside the polar regions.
These glaciers act as water storage towers for South and East Asia, releasing melt water in warm months to the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra and other river systems that provide fresh water to more than a billion people. In the dry season, glacial melt provides half or more of the water in many rivers.
(Solve Climate, December 17, 2009)