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Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert

Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as
glaciers melt and continent’s great rivers dry up

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 07 May 2006

Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of
the world, and turning it into desert, leading scientists
have revealed.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences - the country’s top
scientific body - has announced that the glaciers of the
Tibetan plateau are vanishing so fast that they will be
reduced by 50 per cent every decade. Each year enough
water permanently melts from them to fill the entire
Yellow River.