Permafrost thaw shows adaptation needs
By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2015-12-11 07:56
The grass is dying. The permafrost is melting.
The literal roots of nomads' lives are drying up.
Climate change has in recent years thawed the underground permafrost that has for millennia propped up the water tables of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, aka the "third pole". Water now drains deeper, rather than saturating the upper soil to quench pastureland.
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