China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since 1960 ... As the important water towers continue to shrink, less availability of freshwater is expected to contribute to greater competition for water ...

"Full-scale glacier shrinkage is inevitable," says Yao Tandong, a glaciologist at China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research. "And it will lead to ecological catastrophe." The potential impacts ...

Conducted by a team from the China Geological Survey, the mission has chosen Renlongba Glacier as the primary research site. The glacier is considered one of the rare modern mountain glaciers with ...