High mountains of Asia hold biggest store of frozen water outside the poles and feed many of the world's great rivers, including the GangesAsia's mountain glaciers will lose at least a third of their mass through global warming by the century's end, with dire consequences for millions of people who rely on them for fresh water, researchers have said.This is a best-case scenario, based on the assumption that the world manages to limit average global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) over pre-industrial levels, a team wrote in the journal Nature. Continue reading...
Asia's glaciers to shrink by a third by 2100, threatening water supply of millions
14. září 2017 2:47
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/14/asia-glaciers-shrink-threatening-water-supply
Zdroj: The Guardian