Chinese glaciers melting
Mengke Touming The glacier, one of the most beautiful in China and located in the northwestern province of Gansu, is melting the effect of climate change, reported the China Daily. ”
The Touming Mengke is the largest valley glacier in the Qilian Mountains in Sunan, but due to warming caused by greenhouse gases is suffering a reduction of six meters a year.
In the last five decades Touming Mengke, 10.1 km long and covers an area of 21.9 square kilometers, has been reduced by 300 meters.
Its maximum altitude is 5483 meters above sea level and the lowest is 4260 meters and is located in the valley Laohu, on the northern slope of the mountain Daxue, in the district of Subei.
His name, of Mongolian origin, meaning “high” and “large.”
Like Touming Mengke, the remaining glaciers in China are also suffering the consequences of global warming, threatening water supplies in the world.
Gansu glacier is considered one of the six most beautiful in China, along with the Rongbuk and Midui in the region of Tibet, and Tomur Telamukanli in neighboring Xinjiang, and Hailuogu in Sichuan.
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