面对全球气候变暖对青藏高原产生的影响,科学家们聚集一堂,计划开展一系列国际合作研究,以期增进了解和减缓“第三极”的变化——寒冷、偏远并且受到全球变暖的影响:这种描述不仅适用于南北两极,也同样可以用来形容研究人员称之为“第三极”的以青藏高原和喜马拉雅山为中心的超过500万平方公里的地区。这个地区拥有地球上除了南北两极之外最大的冰雪储量,储存了超 Facing the impact of global warming on the Tibetan Plateau, scientists gathered to plan a series of international collaborative research with a view to enhancing understanding and mitigation of changes in the “third pole” - cold, remote and subject to global warming : This description applies not only to the North and South Poles, but also to the more than 5 million square kilometers that the researchers call the “Third Pole” centered on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas. This area has the largest amount of ice and snow on Earth except for the north and south poles and has been stored ultra