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Today's planet-saving green transition would not be possible without the help of Lithium-ion batteries, the heart of almost every <keyword id="381751" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="electric-vehicle" source="Orion">electric vehicle</keyword> you'll find on the streets. From <keyword id="107096" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="tesla" source="Orion">Tesla</keyword> to Ola, most major <keyword id="186291" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ev" source="Orion">EV</keyword> manufacturers use these cells to power their vehicles. And for good reason too; no other battery type offers the energy, performance and cost efficiency of a lithium-ion. However, even while rooted in essentially a good thing, the race to be the top EV manufacturer is creating trouble in our <keyword id="49089" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="sustainability" source="Orion">sustainability</keyword> paradise. To make <keyword id="632767" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="lithium" source="Orion">lithium</keyword>-ion batteries, you require — you guessed it — lithium. This element isn't nearly abundant enough to ensure a frictionless EV transition, leading to vehicle manufacturers scrambling to get their hands on whatever mines can supply the "white gold". Unfortunately for the <keyword id="74610" type="General" weightage="60" keywordseo="tibetan-plateau" source="Orion">Tibetan Plateau</keyword>, which hosts 85% of <keyword id="1334" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword>'s total lithium reserves, this spells disaster. Spanning over a large area that includes <keyword id="26604" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ladakh" source="Orion">Ladakh</keyword>, Spiti, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim in India, some parts of China and most of Tibet, the Tibetan Plateau's pristine landscapes harbour fragile ecology. And the actions of China are proving increasingly dangerous for this region, new research has found. Being the world's biggest EV market, China requires a steady supply of lithium to keep the gears rolling. Unfortunately, this has led to exploitation of the Tibetan Plateau's reserves, leading to Chinese miners polluting the local environment with "quick, cheap and dirty" methods of extracting and processing the material, the report reads. About 3.6 million tons of China's lithium reserves are found in hard rock deposits in Tibet and adjacent provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai. Environmentally unsafe <keyword id="6355267" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mining" source="Orion">mining</keyword> techniques are destroying the region's ecology, especially in biodiverse areas particularly vulnerable to climate change. The study also mentions an incident where mining activity reportedly killed thousands of fish and ruined grasslands that the Tibetan herders were dependent on. Further, Tibetan locals are rarely ever informed that their hill pastures are being sold away or worked upon, leading to exacerbated tensions between Tibetans and China, and a worsening of rights violations. The report outlined that international EV firms are also indirectly adding to the crisis. Pressure from massive EV carmakers such as Tesla and BYD for a steady flow of lithium ensures that the region's treacherous mining escapes continue in full, unabated swing. As the demand for faster and better EVs continues to spike, so will the mining operations and the toll on Tibet. With China's growing tensions with western importers, a rush for self-reliance could further exacerbate this burden on the region — something that needs to be checked immediately.

Lithium mine overexploitation to create more electric vehicles is destroying the Tibetan Plateau

Glaciers in the <keyword id="982087" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Qinghai-Tibet-Plateau">Qinghai-Tibet Plateau</keyword>, home to several Himalayan rivers including the Brahamaputra, have shrunk 15% due to <keyword id="6366055" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="global-warming">global warming</keyword>, Chinese researchers said. 
 
Glaciers have shrunk from 53,000 to 45,000 sq km in the past 30 years, the scientists added. 
 
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the highest place in the world's mid-latitude regions, is more likely to get affected by global warming, they said. 
 
Kang Shichang, a researcher with the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute of CAS, said glaciers started to shrink since the 20th century and speeded up since the 1990s. 
 
Retreating glaciers can increase water flow of major rivers in the short term, he said. 
 
A continuation of the retreat will eventually deplete the glacial ice and substantially reduce or eliminate runoff, he added. 
 
China has more than 46,000 glaciers, mainly in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Glaciers In Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Shrinking Due To Global Warming

<keyword id="1334" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="China">China</keyword> on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of <keyword id="6364076" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="tibet">Tibet</keyword>, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh. The 435.5-km Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway has been inaugurated ahead of the centenary celebrations of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) on July 1. The first electrified railway in Tibet Autonomous Region opened Friday morning, linking Lhasa with Nyingchi as "Fuxing" bullet trains enter official operation on the plateau region, state-run <keyword id="106387" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Xinhua-news-agency">Xinhua news agency</keyword> reported. It has a designed speed of 160 km per hour and operates on a single-line electrified railway. It stops at nine stations, including Lhasa, Shannan and Nyingchi and can handle passenger and freight transportation, the report said. Compared to roads, the Lhasa-Nyingchi railway reduces the travel time from Lhasa to Nyingchi from 5 hours to approximately 3.5 hours, and cuts the travel time from Shannan to Nyingchi from 6 hours to approximately 2 hours, it said. The rail line passes through 47 tunnels and 121 bridges and crosses the Brahmaputra river locally called Yarlung Zangbo 16 times. Tunnels and bridges account for approximately 75 per cent of the total length of the railway track. Also, it has an annual freight transport capacity of 10 million tonnes which provides strong support for the flow of goods, will promote economic development and improve people's lives, the report said. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway will be the second railway into Tibet after the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. It will go through the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, one of the world's most geologically active areas. In November, Chinese President <keyword id="191809" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Xi-Jinping">Xi Jinping</keyword> had instructed officials to expedite construction of the new railway project, connecting Sichuan Province and Nyingchi in Tibet, saying the new rail line would play a key role in safeguarding the border stability. The Sichuan-Tibet Railway starts from Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, and travels through Ya'an and enters Tibet via Qamdo, shortening the journey from Chengdu to Lhasa from 48 hours to 13 hours. Nyingchi is the prefecture-level city of Medog which is adjacent to the Arunachal Pradesh border. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of South Tibet, which is firmly rejected by <keyword id="3658" type="LOCATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>. The India-China border dispute covers the 3,488-km-long Line of Actual Control (LAC). Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, told the official daily <keyword id="107898" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Global-Times">Global Times</keyword> earlier that "If a scenario of a crisis happens at the China-India border, the railway will provide a great convenience for China's delivery of strategic materials. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/cryptocurrency/news/heres-how-chinas-2021-crypto-crackdown-in-2021-differs-from-the-2017-ban/articleshow/83802778.cms">Here’s how China’s 2021 crypto crackdown in 2021 differs from the 2017 ban</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/startups/news/zomato-is-seeking-a-8-billion-valuation-in-its-ipo-does-it-make-sense/articleshow/83801848.cms">There are a few reasons why Zomato wants $8 billion valuation from its IPO -- here's a look at if it makes sense</a>

China launches first fully-electrified bullet train near Himalayan region of Tibet

China plans to build its first <keyword id="47638" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mars">Mars</keyword> simulation base on the Tibetan plateau in the country's northwest as it aims to send the first mission to the red planet by 2020 to catch-up with the US, India and Russia. An agreement to build a "Mars village" at Haixi prefecture in Qinghai province, a part of the Tibetan plateau located next to <keyword id="407159" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tibet-Autonomous-Region">Tibet Autonomous Region</keyword>, was signed yesterday, state-run <keyword id="136556" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="China-News-Service">China News Service</keyword> reported. The region on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau is known for its sharp ridges and mounds of rock - known as yardangs - formed over the centuries by wind erosion. They mirror similar features found on the arid surface of Mars. The project will incorporate education, tourism, scientific research and simulation training, Hong-Kong based South China Morning Post reported. China aims to launch a Mars probe around 2020 to carry out orbiting and roving exploration, followed by a second mission that would include collection of surface samples from the red planet, according to an official white paper 'China's Space Activities in 2016'. China looks to catch up with India, the US, Russia and the European Union in sending probes to Mars. The base might also include a set for shooting films and TV shows, the report quoted a local government statement as saying. Liu Xiaoqun, an official involved in space exploration at the <keyword id="165758" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chinese-Academy-of-Sciences">Chinese Academy of Sciences</keyword>, said the base would contribute to local tourism in Qinghai. The facility, composed of a "Mars community" and a "Mars camp", will provide tourists with a unique scientific and cultural experience, the report said. The government showed off images last year depicting its future orbiter, lander and rover - designed to explore the surface of the red planet. China to build first Mars simulation base near <keyword id="6364076" type="COUNTRY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Tibet">Tibet</keyword>.

Trying to compete with India, China plans to build Mars simulation base near Tibet

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"></div><a href="http://www.davidraccuglia.com/flash.html">David Raccuglia</a></div>Five years after an explosion of unrest on the Tibetan plateau, the region is again in crisis. This time the world is looking away
INSIDE a small monastery in <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>’s Qinghai province, a red-robed monk looks around to see if he is being watched, then begins sobbing. "We just want the Dalai Lama to come home", he says. His words echo those of dozens of Tibetans seeking to explain why they have set themselves on fire in public places across the Tibetan plateau in the past two years. Desperation is growing among the Dalai Lama’s followers in China. So, too, is the government’s effort to silence them.
Since an outbreak of unrest swept the Tibetan plateau five years ago this month, including anti-Chinese riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa and protests in numerous towns and monasteries, the party has tried to control Tibetan discontent by means of carrot and stick. The stick has involved tighter policing of monasteries, controls on visits to Lhasa, denunciations of the Dalai Lama and arrests of dissidents. The carrot is visible not far from the crying monk’s monastery: new expressways across the vast grasslands, new roads to remote villages, better housing for monks and restorations to their prayer-halls. Yet the spectacle of more than 100 Tibetans setting themselves alight, mostly in the past two years, in one of the largest such protests in modern political history, suggests that neither approach is working.
Despite, or perhaps because of, intense crackdowns in the affected areas of the <keyword id="6364076" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tibet">Tibet</keyword>an plateau, the burnings in recent months have spread across a wider area (the plateau is one-third the size of America) and involved more people without links to monasteries. The government’s growing worry is evident in the intense security in the worst-affected areas, mostly in Tibetan-populated parts of the provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai, as well as in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Since last year the government has begun rounding up those deemed to have encouraged Tibetans to burn themselves. Dozens have been detained. Several have been jailed for terms ranging from a few months to life.
All of the TAR, as well as trouble spots in neighbouring provinces, are off limits to most foreign journalists. But tension is palpable even in the few areas that remain accessible. During celebrations of the Tibetan new year in late February, at least three fire engines were parked inside Kumbum monastery compound near Xining, the capital of Qinghai. Dozens of police with extinguishers and fire blankets stood among the crowds of pilgrims and holidaymakers. West of Xining in Hainan prefecture, a Tibetan-majority area about the size of Switzerland, no one has been reported to have set themselves on fire. But the authorities are worried. In November hundreds of medical students protested in Gonghe county against the circulation of a government leaflet disparaging the immolators and the Dalai Lama. Residents say the police used tear-gas to break up a demonstration in the county town and arrested several participants. The prefectural authorities called the demonstration "illegal" and demanded that young people in Hainan form a (metaphorical) "wall of copper and rampart of iron against splittism, infiltration and self-immolations".
Though most minority groups live fairly peacefully under Chinese rule (see next story), the Tibetans cite many reasons for the renewed unrest: the continuing influx of ethnic-Han migrants (encouraged by huge government investment in transport infrastructure); environmental damage caused by mining and construction; the marginalisation of the Tibetan language in schools. The ageing of the Dalai Lama (he is 77) and his announcement in 2011 that he was retiring as head of Tibet’s government-in-exile in India are also factors. A growing sense that this incarnation of the Dalai Lama might not have much longer is fuelling demands for his return to the land that he fled after a failed uprising in 1959.
<h3><div class="image-container" style="width:630px"><div class="image"></div>The Economist</div></h3>
<h3>Too long in exile</h3>
"[In] this life…service at least in the field of Tibetan struggle now already end", says the Dalai Lama in his halting English in the Indian town of Dharamsala that is his home. He is now, he says, devoting himself to the promotion of religious harmony and a dialogue between Buddhism and modern science. China is not convinced. Robert Barnett of Columbia University says that in recent weeks Chinese officials have increasingly accused the "Dalai Lama clique" of organising the burnings.
Mr Barnett says it is possible that China will try to defuse the tensions by reopening talks with the Dalai Lama’s representatives. There have been no such meetings since January 2010, when the two sides reached an impasse over differences relating to the envoys’ call for "genuine autonomy" for Tibet, while accepting that it remain part of China. (Other Tibetans in India still want independence, a cause of dispute among the exiles.) Chinese officials denounce even the compromise of autonomy as a scheme for achieving full independence. Among China’s other concerns is a proposal that Tibet be defined as the TAR plus the Tibetan-inhabited areas of neighbouring provinces, an area one quarter the size of China (see map).
<h3>Sleeping demon</h3>
The Dalai Lama’s retirement could make a resumption of talks more difficult. In August 2011, after winning an election in which nearly 50,000 Tibetan exiles voted, Lobsang Sangay, a Harvard academic, took over as head of the exiled government and assumed the political role once played by the Dalai Lama ("now demon peacefully sleeping", the holy man quips, referring to a word he says Chinese officials have used to describe him). Mr Sangay says that China can still hold talks if it wants with the Dalai Lama’s representatives. But those envoys resigned in June, citing the "deteriorating situation" in Tibet and China’s failure to "respond positively" to autonomy proposals. Among the powers Mr Sangay has taken on is the right to appoint the envoys’ successors, who have yet to be chosen. This will make China wary of beginning talks, for fear of conferring legitimacy on the new exile administration.
Some Tibetans in India see a glimmer of hope in China’s ten-yearly change of leadership which will be completed with the appointments of Xi Jinping as president and Li Keqiang as prime minister shortly before the end of the annual session of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, on March 17th (see next page). Mr Xi’s predecessor, Hu Jintao, was party chief in Tibet during an outbreak of unrest in the late 1980s which he resolutely suppressed (just as he suppressed the far bigger eruption in 2008). Mr Xi, goes the thinking, could be different. In the 1950s the Dalai Lama got to know Mr Xi’s late father, Xi Zhongxun, who was one of Mao Zedong’s comrades. The elder Xi received a watch from the Dalai Lama, which he wore long after the flight to India. If the father had a soft spot for the Dalai Lama, optimists think, so might the son.
In recent months the birthplace of the Dalai Lama in Hongya village, about 30km (20 miles) south-east of Kumbum monastery, has been given a makeover, though no one is sure why. Despite a crackdown on Dalai Lama worship elsewhere on the plateau, visitors to the grey-walled compound can see photographs of him, as well as a golden throne intended for him to sit on should he ever return. A caretaker says money for the recent improvements (including new bricks and a coat of paint) came from the government. She says foreigners are not allowed inside, but gladly shows around a group of Tibetan pilgrims who have driven hundreds of kilometres to see the site. But exiled officials are unimpressed and the Dalai Lama is cautious. "Better to wait till some concrete things happen, otherwise…some disappointment", he says with a chuckle.
Indeed, disappointment still appears likely. Mr Xi is under little pressure from other countries to change Chinese policy on Tibet. The unrest in 2008 broke out as China was preparing to host the Olympic games. It wanted the event to mark the country’s emergence as an open-minded world power. Despite that, it cracked down hard on the protests, but in a concession to international demands, resumed talks with the Dalai Lama’s representatives less than two months later. Two rounds were held before the games started, but with no obvious progress.
Since 2008 the West’s economic malaise has made China even less amenable to foreign persuasion on Tibet. Britain, hoping to reduce China’s prickliness on the issue, announced in October that year that it was abandoning its century-old policy (unique among Western countries) of merely recognising China’s "suzerainty" over the region rather than its sovereignty. It has reaped no obvious reward. Britain’s relations with China were plunged into a prolonged chill by a meeting last May between the Dalai Lama and the British prime minister, David Cameron. Global Times, a Beijing newspaper, said last month that China had "more leverage than Britain" in the two countries’ relations, adding with some justification: "Few countries can afford to really be tough against China."
<h3>One nation indivisible</h3>
Mr Xi faces little pressure from public or elite opinion inside China, other than to maintain a firm grip. Some Chinese intellectuals have questioned whether the government’s heavy-handedness in Tibet will bring about long-lasting stability. A small but seemingly growing number of Han Chinese, the country’s ethnic majority, are attracted by Tibetan Buddhism (Han visitors to Kumbum Monastery thronged around its statues and clasped their hands in prayer during the recent festivities). But concessions to the Dalai Lama on autonomy have little support in China.
Few observers expect any relaxation of what seems to be a stepped-up effort to stop Tibetans fleeing to India. Before 2008, 2,000-3,000 a year were doing so. This fell to a few hundred after the unrest that year. A new refugee centre opened in Dharamsala in 2011, with American funding and the capacity for 500 people. In 2012 fewer than 400 escaped. At the beginning of March only two people--a couple from a Tibetan area of Sichuan province--were there. Before they left their village, they had to sign a document saying they would not go to India. For Tibetans, even visiting Lhasa needs a permit. Last year hundreds were detained, some of them for months, after returning from legal trips to India in which they surreptitiously attended teachings by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, a holy Buddhist site.
Heavy security in Tibet, including riot police patrolling the streets of Lhasa, may help prevent another plateau-wide explosion like that of 2008. But the sight of Tibetans setting themselves on fire, and official attempts to denigrate them, are deepening the region’s wounds. Little chance of resolution is in sight. The weeping monk recalls that, after an earthquake in 2010 in Qinghai’s Yushu county, officials asked some victims what they needed. They replied that they just wanted the Dalai Lama back. "They can control us," the monk says, "but they can’t control our hearts."
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The World Looks Away As China Stonewalls Tibet

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A massive <keyword id="14556472" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sandstorm" source="Orion">sandstorm</keyword> swept through <keyword id="11892748" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="china" source="Orion">China</keyword>'s Qinghai province on July 20.</li><li>Footage shows a giant wall of sand roaring down a highway as motorists try to outrun it.</li></ul>Footage has emerged online of a sandstorm that barreled through a northwestern Chinese province last week, with several videos showing a massive wall of sand chasing down fleeing motorists.The sandstorm hit the Qinghai province's Haixi region on July 20, according to state broadcaster <a href="https://tv.cctv.com/2022/07/22/VIDEyrLJB4yvVjGVfmjwTvyf220722.shtml">CCTV-2.</a>One video posted on Twitter showed motorists speeding down a highway to escape an oncoming wall of sand.According to CCTV-2, the storm whipped sand through the province at speeds of up to 48.8 feet per second, or around 33 miles per hour. Visibility was also reduced to about 600 feet, the broadcaster reported.Chinese outlet The Paper <a href="https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_19127336">released footage</a> of a city in Haixi being swallowed up by the sandstorm at around 7 p.m., citing one resident who said the area hadn't seen a dust storm of such severity in the last two years.Meanwhile, state media outlet CGTN tweeted videos of a darkened sky as the sandstorm engulfed city streets.At Emerald Lake, a tourist attraction in the town of Dachaidan, visitors were seen trying to escape in shuttle vehicles as the sandstorm approached.<div type="image" title="A shuttle vehicle carrying tourists runs at the Emerald Lake tourist attraction in Da Qaidam (also known as Dachaidan) Town during a sandstorm on July 20, 2022 in Da Qaidam District, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province of China." height="4480" width="6720" msid="93126513" hostid="261" sizebytes="970262"></div>State broadcasters did not say if anyone was hurt by the <keyword id="14556473" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="freak-weather" source="Orion">freak weather</keyword> event.<div type="image" title="Tourists walk at the Emerald Lake tourist attraction in Da Qaidam (also known as Dachaidan) Town during a sandstorm on July 20, 2022" height="4480" width="6720" msid="93126515" hostid="261" sizebytes="4036028"></div>Qinghai province, mainly located over the Tibetan Plateau, borders China's Xinjiang and Tibet regions.<div type="image" title="A map of China showing Qinghai province." height="598" width="1038" msid="93126517" hostid="261" sizebytes="60962"></div>The sandstorm activity subsided in the province by July 22, CCTV-2 reported.

Videos and photos show a massive sandstorm chasing motorists and darkening the sky in northwestern China

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Garbage has piled up for years in spots around <keyword id="6361804" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="unesco">UNESCO</keyword> World Heritage site Hoh Xil, reported <a href="http://www.eeo.com.cn/2021/0621/492400.shtml">The Economic Observer.</a></li><li>Hundreds of herders were made to clean up a particularly bad stretch of trash.</li><li>The garbage could endanger the 230 animal species in the area.</li></ul>Huge piles of garbage threaten to destroy the Hoh Xil nature reserve, <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1540/">a UNESCO World Heritage site</a> in northwestern <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>, <a href="http://www.eeo.com.cn/2021/0621/492400.shtml">reported The Economic Observer</a> on Sunday. The site, sometimes dubbed "The Third Pole," is the <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1540/">highest and largest plateau in the world.</a>One particularly ravaged spot is a 656-foot long and 65-ft wide 'garbage belt,' filled with anything from plastic, cans, and paint buckets to sheep and yak carcasses, said the Beijing-based newspaper.The garbage belt runs along <a href="https://www.tibetdiscovery.com/road-to-tibet/qinghai-tibet-highway/">the Qinghai-Tibet Highway,</a> a national road used heavily by tourists and long-distance truckers.Hundreds of local herders were called in by officials to aid with the clean-up, but are struggling to finish the job due to the sheer amount of trash, reported <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3138219/garbage-dumped-tourists-truckers-turn-chinas-roof-world-eyesore">the South China Morning Post</a>.A local herder who was enlisted to help, Tsering Kunbu, told the Post that only around 200 people live in the area near the garbage belt and that the <keyword id="48779" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="waste">waste</keyword> there has accumulated for years because there are no landfill sites nearby.He added that petrol stations, restaurants, and car repair shops in Hoh Xil are also plagued with immense amounts of litter.Independent geologist and explorer Yang Yong told the Post that the garbage situation in the area "has not improved for many years."The swells of trash have raised concerns for <keyword id="6360144" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="wildlife">wildlife</keyword> in the nature reserve - a 32,000 square-mile area that hosts over <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com//english/2017-07/08/c_136426714.htm">230 animal species</a>, including the <a href="https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/15967/50192544">Tibetan antelope.</a>Li Junsheng, a deputy director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, told <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226724.shtml">The Global Times</a> that the garbage could poison animals and humans and pollute water in the region.He called for laws that regulate human activity in the region to be amended and published as soon as possible.Hoh Xil's frigid climate sees sub-zero temperatures all year round, which can reach as low as -49°F (-45°C).The reserve, which is mostly uninhabitable, was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2017. It's part of China's first national park, the <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189032.shtml">Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve</a>, which covers 47,500 square miles in total.

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