Word: plateauing
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...good day, it takes 12 hours by bus to get to Yushu from the provincial capital, Xining, which is itself about a 1,000-mile drive from the national capital of Beijing. As you climb south and west across the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, urban sprawl cedes to empty steppe. Just north of Tibet, the road opens into a small town tucked in a river valley. Its main street is lined with vendors selling yak butter and tea; its low, brown hills are lined with rows of brightly colored courtyard homes. Those homes - and the town - now lie in ruin...
...scramble for land, scarce resources and political clout. Poverty, joblessness and corrupt politics drive extremists from both sides to commit horrendous atrocities. Although the nation rakes in billions of dollars in oil revenue annually, the majority of Nigerians scrape by on less than a dollar a day. In Plateau State, where Jos is located, Muslim cattle herders from the north and Christian farmers from the south vie for control of the fertile plains...
...Because of the hydropower projects on its side of the border, China frequently gets the blame for water shortages downstream. Indeed, Vietnam's neighbor has been on an aggressive campaign to damn the Mekong River, which begins on the Tibetan plateau and travels through five other countries before it empties into the South China Sea. According to the Mekong River Commission, a regional advisory agency, China has built or is planning to build eight dams along the Mekong. But while dams raise huge concerns about interfering with sediment flow and fish migration, they can also have a positive impact, says...
...Bellerive can at least be refreshingly blunt. For all his dreams about an agri-boom on Haiti's central plateau, he's quick to note that "our goal at the moment isn't to escape poverty. It's to escape misery so we can get back to poverty." Haitians like Marie Chantal would agree: they'd gladly take back their lives of poverty - with at least lace curtains in the windows - than face the misery raining down on them...
Indeed, while Himalayan ice will almost certainly still be here in 2035, it is definitely melting - and that will have a serious impact on the billions of people in Asia who depend at least partially on Himalayan meltwater. Yao Tandong, head of China's Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, has done on-the-ground research on the Chinese side of the Himalayas - the world's biggest collection of ice outside the two poles - and reported last year that by the end of the century, as much as 70% of the mountain range's glaciers could disappear. And far from providing...