The air was thin as a group of scientists trudged through snow near the peak of the Dagu Glacier in southwestern China on a gloomy June morning. It was quiet up there, 3 miles above sea level, except for the sound of running water - a constant remind
Tibetan Plateau glaciers, which support the lives of billions of people, took tens of millions of years to develop but almost a sixth of their ice has vanished in the last 50 years.
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