Qilian Mountains glaciers might melt in decades

时间：2007-09-06 08:08:03

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Chinanews, Lanzhou, September 5 – According to research meteorologists in Gansu Province, continuous warming has caused the glaciers1 in the Qilian Mountains, a range straddling the provincial2 boarder between Qinghai and Gansu provinces, might melt away around 2050.

 

Nowadays, the snowline in the mountains keeps rising by 2 – 6.5 m every year. The 1,970-sq-km glaciers on the Qilian Mountains are the major water sources for the Shiyang, Hei and Shule rivers, which are the lifeline to 5 million people in northwest China. These days, the water from Qilian Mountains glaciers has dropped by one billion cubic meters every year.

 

The population explosion in Gansu should also be blamed for the degradation3 of the glaciers, as excessive grazing there has contributed a lot to the desertification of Qilian Mountain range, which is also deadly to the glaciers.

 
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1 glaciers e815ddf266946d55974cdc5579cbd89b     
冰河，冰川( glacier的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
  • It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川，又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分（高一）
2 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人
参考例句：
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
3 degradation QxKxL     
n.降级；低落；退化；陵削；降解；衰变
参考例句：
  • There are serious problems of land degradation in some arid zones.在一些干旱地带存在严重的土地退化问题。
  • Gambling is always coupled with degradation.赌博总是与堕落相联系。

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