No need to write a US reference; here's a Chinese:
TIBET GLACIER MELT THREATENS CHINA
AL JAZEERA - China faces worsening droughts, desertification and
irreparable damage to vital river systems as glaciers on the
Qinghai-Tibet plateau melt due to global warming, a government-backed
study has found. The study produced by the Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences found that temperatures in the region had
steadily risen since the 1980s.
"One of the worst results of the rising temperature on the plateau
could be an ultimate change in the volume of water flowing into the
Yangtze, the Yellow and other rivers that originate in the mountainous
region," the China Daily newspaper quoted Xu Xiangde, an academy
researcher, as saying. The result, scientists say, could be severe
shortages of water supplies needed for irrigation and millions of
people living in some of China's biggest cities. Already, the Yellow
River is running at record lows. Once known as "China's sorrow" for
its catastrophic flooding, at several points it now dries up
altogether at certain times of year. . .
A recent study by the United Nations Development Programme has warned
that the rate of glacier melt in the Himalayas could see them
disappear altogether by 2100.