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Researchers study the risk of glacial lake outbursts in the Third Pole
The Third Pole‚ which spans the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding Himalayas‚ Hindu Kush‚ and Tianshan Mountain ranges‚ is extremely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Warming temperatures and altered rainfall patterns have caused more than 10‚000 glaciers in the region to retreat over the past three decades‚ facilitating the formation of thousands of glacial lakes.
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