The effects have now reached beyond Tibet's borders and are acknowledged to be a prime factor in devastating floods in China, India and Bangladesh. Such vegetation cover is also thought to influence land and surrounding atmospheric temperatures which help regulate the vital Asiatic Monsoon.
Deforestation on such a massive scale is causing serious alarm among climatologists and environmentalists, who consider this pattern may be dangerously destabilised.
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