China`s largest lake may vanish in 200 years

China’s largest lake, holy to Tibetans but suffering from global warming and desertification, may vanish in two centuries even as the government pledges $870 million to stop it shrinking, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.

Global warming threatens Tibetan glaciers

Chinese geologists have warned that glaciers in Tibet and the neighbouring province of Qinghai are shrinking rapidly. They say the loss of ice threatens the economies of China and other countries whose rivers are fed