{"id":156955,"date":"2026-09-03T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156955"},"modified":"2026-09-03T03:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:56:19","slug":"unstable-tibetan-plateau-risks-cascading-disasters-as-glacier-losses-mount-in-nepal-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156955","title":{"rendered":"Unstable Tibetan Plateau risks cascading disasters as glacier losses mount in Nepal, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGlaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are likely to become more unstable, which may lead to more collapses and collateral disasters, a senior climate official warns as the death toll from last week\u2019s catastrophic landslide and flood on the China-Nepal border continues to rise.<br \/>\n\u201cOver the past 60 years, the glacier area on the Tibetan Plateau has shrunk by around 24 per cent, with around 7,000 small glaciers disappearing completely,\u201d Gao Rong, deputy director of China\u2019s National Climate Centre, told a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3366180\/unstable-tibetan-plateau-risks-cascading-disasters-glacier-losses-mount-nepal-china?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGlaciers on the Tibetan Plateau are likely to become more unstable, which may lead to more collapses and collateral disasters, a senior climate official&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}