Urumqi Glacier No. 1, located about 130 kilometers from Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is the closest glacier to an urban area on Earth. Chinese scientists have been monitoring it for more than 60 years. Research has shown that without effective protection, the glacier could disappear in 50 years due to global warming. Now Chinese researcher Wang Feiteng and his team are racing against time to save the glacier. What's their approach? Will they succeed? (CGTN)
Chinese researchers have achieved progress in the study of artificial glacier melt reduction by evaluating the effects of different cover materials, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In the study conducted between June and August 2021, researchers with t...
A new study has revealed that the mass loss of 2.7 gigaton (Gt) lake-terminating glaciers in the Himalayas has been significantly underestimated from 2000 to 2020, due to the inability of satellites to see glacier changes occurring underwater.
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