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 ...

Even a best-case scenario – if the targets of the Paris Agreement to stop climate change are met – foresees glacier shrinkage the size of Nepal, according to the study published in the ...