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July 16, 2007
Global Warming Reducing River Flows In China
The Xinhua news reported Chinese scientists have found that water flowing in both the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, is far less today than 40 years ago due to the affect of global warming on the wetland which feed them.
Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences studied changes at the wetlands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in western China using aerial photos and satellite images, which showed that the wetlands on the plateau have shrunk more than 10 percent over the past four decades.
"The wetlands play a key role in containing water and adjusting the water volume of the rivers," researcher Wang Xugen said. "The shrinking of the wetland on the plateau is closely connected with global warming."
"The increased rainfall didn't lead to more water flow in the rivers because the evaporation was so fast as a result of global warming," Li Shijie, a researcher with the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology said. The institute is connected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as reported by Xinhua news and published by China Daily.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 16, 2007 03:10 PM
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