The world’s highest peak Mount Everest is getting warmer for the past 50 years and is shrinking remarkably due to the global warming. The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hunan University of Science and Technology and Mount Qomolangma Snow Leopard Conservation Centre said in a report that “The glaciers in 8,844-metre-high Mt Everest, known as Mt Qomolangma in Tibet, have been shrinking “remarkably” swelling glacial lakes and rivers downstream”.

On the other hand, the forest coverage around the Everest is increased and the ecological environment is getting better.

The Tibetan plateau, known as the core of “The Third Pole,” is located within southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region with an average altitude of over 4,500 meters, regarded as the roof of the world, experiencing grim scenario as its glaciers were retreating and natural disasters were on the rise due to rising temperatures and increasing human activity.

Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in last month in a report said that the glacier on the Tibetan plateau has been backing off since the 20th century due to rising temperature and at a faster speed since 1990’s.

It also said that the Natural disasters are on the rise on the Tibetan plateau as the region due to global warming and increased human activity. Disasters including snow disasters, landslides and torrential floods are expected to increase and fires will be more difficult to prevent and extinguish.

Glacier loss in the Tibetan plateau is most prominent in the Himalayan Mountains and the southeastern Tibet, whereas glacier stays relevantly stable, even progressing, in the Karakoram and Western Kunlun region due to increasing precipitation, the report said.

The report also noted that the area and growing stock of forest on the plateau have increased significantly since 1998, from 7.29 million hectares in 1997 to 14.72 million hectares in 2013 and 2.09 billion cubic meters in 1997 to 2.26 billion cubic meters in 2013, respectively.

On the positive side, the number and area of lakes on the Tibetan plateau increased notably. The number of lakes exceeding one square kilometre climbed from 1,081 in the 1970s to 1,236 in 2010, and 80 per cent of lakes in the region have been expanding.

To stop the increase in the temperature, the protection and restoration of the forests must be done. Also, we have to decrease the usage of the fossil fuels which releases the harmful gases that affect the environment.