Melt Rate Of Everest Glaciers Spikes - Melt Altitude Up 100 M In One Year

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Beijing, May 7. (PTI): Chinese scientists have found that glaciers in Mt. Everest and adjoining areas are melting faster due to global warming, the state media reported today.

According to the findings of a comprehensive scientific expedition to the Everest region, the glaciers in the area are melting at a faster rate than expected, leader of the group, Professor Kang Shichang said.

Kang, with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who returned to the Everest base camp from the Everest advance camp 6,500 metres above sea level on May 1, said due to the effects of global warming, the Everest region's glacier area is decreasing rapidly. The melting of glaciers in Everest's East Rongbuk region has expanded from last year's 6,300-metre-altitude region to 6,400-metres this year.

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Through remote geological monitoring and in-depth on-the-spot investigation, Chinese scientists have discovered that in the past three decades, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau region's glacier area declined by 4,420.78 square kilometres, 147.36 square kilometres per year on average, a total decrease rate of 9.05 per cent."

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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200505071033.htm