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Mongolia on the Verge of Ecological Collapse: Warming Twice as Fast as Global Average
Image courtesy of tiarescott via flickrIt is a testament to the disproportionate impact of global warming on certain ecosystems to see just how far Mongolia has managed to slide towards ecological collapse. John Bohannon's sobering account (sub. required) of the Lake Hovsgol project, which appears in the latest edition of the journal Science, offers little hope that Mongolia will be able to avoid a climate-induced catastrophe.Clyde Goulden, a researcher from Philadelphia's Academy of Natura...
Source: TreeHugger