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Strategies & Market Trends : China Warehouse- More Than Crockery
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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4254)1/25/2005 1:28:14 PM
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China to remeasure Mt. Everest peak amid fears it is shrinking
(AFP)

25 January 2005

BEIJING - China plans to send a scientific team to Mount Everest this year to remeasure the height of its peak and track the impact of global warming, state media said on Tuesday.

The team, jointly organised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM), will work on the world? highest mountain from March 20 to June 20, China Central Television reported.

It will be China? fourth such expedition following others in 1959, 1966 and 1975.

This time, the scientists will focus on the damage caused to the area by global warming over the past 30 years, CCTV said.

Mount Everest, which straddles the border of Nepal and Chinese-controlled Tibet, is believed to have shrunk by as much as 1.3 meters (4.29 feet) due to global warming and the melting of glaciers, it said.

The mountain? official height is currently 29,028 feet (8,848 meters).

Chinese state media last year reported that a staggering seven percent of the country? glaciers are vanishing annually under the sweltering sun, including those covering Everest.

Leading glacier expert Yan Tandong said that as many as 64 percent of China? glaciers may be gone by 2050 if current trends continue.

khaleejtimes.com
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