由于高原生态环境十分脆弱,专家建议,开发利用还需谨慎。 刚刚结束的中美联合科考队,在喜马拉雅山地区发现了多种类型冰川,并证实了此前科学家提出的以青藏高原为核心的“高亚洲”地区冰川,正在全面强烈退缩的理论。令科学家们担心的是,将来冰川一旦大量消亡,其下游河流会逐渐干涸,最终导致气候干燥、陆地荒漠化等生态灾难的来临。 As the plateau ecological environment is very fragile, experts suggest that the development and utilization need to be cautious. The just concluded Sino-U.S. Expedition team discovered many types of glaciers in the Himalayas and confirmed the theory that the glaciers in the “high-Asia” regions centered on the Tibetan Plateau, previously proposed by scientists, are being fully and strongly retreated. What worries scientists is that once the glacier vanishes in the future, its downstream rivers will gradually dry up, eventually leading to ecological disasters such as dry climate and desertification on land.