How to head off climate-change ruin in Asia

Published: 31/12/2011 at 02:07 AM
Newspaper section: News

Rising, warming and increasingly acidic seas threaten the very survival of Pacific island countries.

The retreat of glaciers and snowfields in the Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau jeopardise these "water towers" on which one billion Asians depend for dry season and drought year flows.

More than 450 million Asians live within the low-elevation coastal zone, including almost 20% of the region's urban residents.

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Ian Wensor
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Discussion 1 : 01/01/2012 at 03:15 PM1
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Before we start worrying about climate change, best we concern ourselves about things that are systematically destroying the Kindgom from within... I refer to things like graft, corruption, neoptism, and xenophobia all of which are eating away at our very soul like some insidious cancer.
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