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世界自然保护基金会在一份报告中警告说,全球变暖正在引发喜马拉雅冰川迅速消融,如果温度继续像现在这样上升,50年后喜马拉雅山脉将不再有冰雪。这将使包括我国在内的数亿民众面临缺水威胁。喜马拉雅,这个美丽动人的名字来源于印度梵文,意为冰雪的居所。喜马拉雅形成的冰川是恒河、印度河、雅鲁藏布江、怒江、澜沧江、长江、黄河的源头。居住在印度次大陆和中国的数亿民众都依靠着这些河流供给水源。几千年来,我们的祖祖辈辈依赖着它生存并繁衍生息。
In a report, the WWF warned that global warming is causing rapid melting of the Himalayan glaciers and that the Himalayas will no longer be snow and ice in 50 years if temperatures continue to so increase. This will expose hundreds of millions of people, including my own, to the threat of water shortage. Himalayan, this beautiful name comes from the Sanskrit in India, meaning the home of ice and snow. The glaciers formed by the Himalayas are the source of the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Nu, Lancang, Yangtze and Yellow Rivers. Hundreds of millions of people living in the Indian subcontinent and China rely on these rivers to supply water. For thousands of years, our ancestors depend on it to survive and thrive.