Tibet’s thawing lakes seen to accelerate greenhouse gas release

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(TibetanReview.net, May20’26) – Lakes on the Tibetan Plateau have once been stable carbon sinks, preventing global warming gas from escaping to the atmosphere to destroy the ozone layer there. But now, due to climate warming, these lakes are undergoing a dramatic transformation, and rapidly becoming significant sources of greenhouse gases, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences study May 19.

This was the main takeaway from a new review published in Watershed Ecology and the Environment, reported newswise.com May 19.

The study was stated to have analyzed nearly 400 scientific papers, revealing that rising temperatures are accelerating permafrost thaw and glacier retreat.

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