HONG KONG, March 26 (Reuters) - China's glacier area has shrunk by 26% since ... As the important water towers continue to shrink, less availability of freshwater is expected to contribute to ...

With blankets, snow machines, and limited funding, a small team of scientists is testing a desperate plan to slow the collapse of one of China’s most vulnerable glaciers.

Glacier shrinkage would also threaten China's agriculture sector. The report warned that overall crop production capacity would drop by 5 percent to 10 percent by 2030 due to global warming ...

China has also adopted the method ... to a 5.9 per cent gain in glacier mass, and helped reduce glacier melt by increasing surface albedo over the following 1-2 days. The rapid shrinking of glaciers ...

The new research, published in the peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications, found that rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015 to 2019 than they had been from ...

With global temperatures rising, China's glaciers have continued to shrink, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources. To further assess glacier distribution after 2000 ...

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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 ...