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Dalai Lama says climate change destroying Tibet 'roof of the world'
2015-10-21 15:10:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reatures: Tibet's exiled leaders, including the Dalai Lama, said on Tuesday two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 because of climate change and demanded a stake in international climate talks later this year. The Tibetan plateau, which has the largest store of ice outside the North and South Pole, has experienced rising temperatures of 1.3 Celsius over the past five decades, three times the global average, the leadership said in a statement. Tibet, with an average...
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