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NEW DELHI, Apr 18: For the first time in Tibet, located across Ladakh in eastern Kashmir, China has created artificial snow. This news has come from government-controlled Xinhua news agency of China on Wednesday. All this months after experts warfned of melting glaciers and drought in the Himalayan region.
Xinhua news agency said that the Tibet meteorological station had performed a "successful artificial snowfall operation" last week in northern Tibet, about 4,500 metres above sea level. The snowfall was measured at 2.2 mm and the accumulated snow on the ground reached one cm after the artificial snowfall.
The agency, in fact, quoted Yu Zhongshui, an engineer with the meteorological station, as saying: "The first artificial snowfall proves it is possible to change the weather through human efforts on the world's highest plateau".
"To launch artificial precipitation can help alleviate drought on the grassland in northern Tibet", Yu was also quoted as saying.
Chinese scientists have warned that rising temperatures on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau will melt glaciers, dry up major Chinese rivers and trigger drought, sandstorms and desertification.
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