Climate: Dalai Lama Appeals To China On drying Tibet Rivers

19-Nov-09

The Dalai Lama on Wednesday appealed to China to take action to stop Tibet's glaciers melting, saying the environmental crisis was more urgent than a political solution over Tibet's future.

Attending a U.N. summit on global hunger in Rome, the exiled Buddhist leader warned rivers from Tibet's glaciers and snow-covered mountains may dry up in 15 to 20 years and asked China to study the problem together with Tibetan experts......

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