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Mon 07 Jul 2010Melting ice fields pose serious threat to water supply in Asia
There are fears that in 25 years, 80 per cent of local glaciers will vanish as warming bites, writes CLIFFORD COONANin Tibet
LOCAL PEOPLE selling trinkets and prayer flags at the Karola Pass in Tibet are looking nervously at the glacier behind, which has melted halfway up the mountain because of global warming. The ice fields at the roof of the world are shrinking.
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