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Climate Change on Tibetan Plateau

A Chinese construction team at the side of a road on the Tibetan Plateau. China's "western development strategy" is seeing a push to bring an improved infrastructure to the region. Many worry it will lead to a slow disappearance of local Tibetan culture.

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Contained in galleries: 3 Rivers - Asia's Threatened Headwaters [2012]

A Chinese construction team at the side of a road on the Tibetan Plateau. China's "western development strategy" is seeing a push to bring an improved infrastructure to the region. Many worry it will lead to a slow disappearance of local Tibetan culture.