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Global Warming Threatens Natural Wonders
_Some Himalayan glaciers are receding by 33 to 49 feet per year, causing floods now and threatening summer drought in the future.
_Glaciers in the Tibetan plateau that feed China's Yangtze river are also shrinking, adding to water flows now but threatening shortages of water, food and electricity to 450 million people as they reach a critical point.
  Chief Scientist at WWF's Global Climate Change Programme Dr. Lara Hansen, left, gestures while talking to the media during a joint press conference with Director of WWF's Global Climate Change Programme Hans Verolme, right, at the Residence Palace in Brussels, Thursday April 5, 2007. Ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) Second Working Group Report currently held in Brussels, the WWF details the work being undertaken in each of the ten regions to build defenses against the damaging impacts of climate change. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier) (Thierry Charlier - AP) Special Report
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_The Bay of Bengal is rising and increasingly violent rainstorms in India could inundate coastal islands, destroy mangrove forests and affect India's Sunderbans, home to the largest wild population of Bengal tigers and to 1 million people.
_Scientists predict East African coastal forests and the offshore ecosystem will also be vulnerable to more frequent and intense storms that will damage agriculture, shoreline mangroves and coral reefs.
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