Tibetan plateau is Earth’s ‘third pole’

The Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as the 'third pole' owing to the amount of freshwater it contains. With over 46 000 glaciers, the Tibetan Plateau holds the largest reserve of freshwater outside of the North and South Poles.

These glaciers feed the rivers that run through the region, including the Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow River, providing a vital source of water for millions of people in China and Southeast Asia.

The Tibetan Plateau's glaciers, along with other glaciers around the world, are under threat from climate change. Rising temperatures are causing the glaciers to melt at an unprecedented rate, which could have devastating consequences for the people and ecosystems that depend on them.

New findings have found that values of ice lost from Himalayan glaciers during 2000 to 2020 were, on average, underestimated by 6.5%. This discovery has critical implications for predicting the demise of the region’s glaciers and for managing critical water resources.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/10_remarkable_Earth_facts

We spend a year on the toilet in our lifetime. ...

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The ginkgo tree is considered a living fossil, as its the only known species of plant that has been found in the fossil record way back in dinosaur times and is found alive today 🙂. thus, a living fossil

The shipping container revolution in the 1960s displaced 90% of longshoremen.

The cost of hand-loading a ship dropped from about $5.86 per ton to only 16 cents per ton with containerization

I just found out yesterday that there is public usage on a wallet that uses the word bacon 24 times as its seed phrase.

Most of the universe's mass is invisible dark matter. We don't know what it's made of, but it could potentially contain new types of building blocks beyond protons and neutrons.

The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896!!! It lasted only 38 minutes

If birds had radios up their butts, there'd be music in the air.

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More than 200 languages spoken in Europe

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Paul Solotshi Le Roux is serving a 25 year sentence in an undisclosed US Federal prison.

In 2014, McDonalds tried Bubble gum-flavored Broccoli in their happy meals.

Quelle yummy.

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Dogs eyes evolved to create the illusion of human-like communication.

The most annoying progress of the last year…

https://m.stacker.news/39417

Did you know? It is estimated that when we reach 2030, 60% of the world's population will live in cities.

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