Climate Change: Shrinking Glaciers and Growing Lakes. These images of lakes west of the Tanggula Mountains, a small range in the central part of the Tibetan Plateau, offer a view of changes caused, in part, by retreating glaciers. The first image was acquired in October 1987; the second image shows the same area in October 2021. The two largest lakes - Chibzhang Co and Dorsoidong Co, have grown larger as the mountain glaciers have shrunk. The front edge of the glaciers have retreated significantly. A high resolution and enhanced composite of original Landsat5 and Landsat8 imagery. Credit NASA

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Location: Tibetan Plateau
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
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