Permafrost thaw and climate change on the Himalayan Plateau
![Mount Everest looking up from the Himalayan plateau](https://images.apps.umt.edu/storage/umt/center/1200/900/numerical-terradynamic-simulation-group/news/imgs/mount-everest-from-himalayan-plateau.png)
A Newsweek article reports that permafrost thawing on the Himalayan Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has occurred at twice the global average rate in recent decades. Research for this article comes from NTSGs climate studies.