Scientific Expedition Warns of Accelerated Glacier Melting in NW China's Xinjiang
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Scientific expedition warns of accelerated glacier melting in NW China's Xinjiang
Xinjiang ranks first in China's glacier reserves, with 24,202 glaciers covering 23,629 sq km
(Beijing=Yonhap News) Correspondent Han Jong-gu = It has been found that the area of glaciers in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has shrunk by an amount equivalent to 3.6 times the size of Seoul over the past 30 years...
URUMQI (CHINA) (XINHUA/ITALPRESS) - Yesterday the scientists of the Third Chinese scientific expedition in Xinjiang announced that they have identified over 24,000 glaciers in the region and warned against acceleration...
It was investigated that 2,167 square kilometers of glaciers disappeared in about 30 years from the 1990s to 2020 in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It is 3.6 times the total area of Seoul (about 605 square kilometers). The Xinjiang General Scientific Research Group, led by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, held a press conference in Urumqi, Xinjiang on the 10th to announce the results of this investigation. 46 rese…
Yesterday the scientists of the Third Chinese scientific expedition in Xinjiang announced that they have identified over 24,000 glaciers in the region and warned against the acceleration of their dissolution.
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