The lakes on the Tibetan plateau are showing a trend of delated freezing and of melting, reports the website Sixth Tone, “fresh voices from today’s China”, citing a new study by the state-backed China Academy of Sciences and published in Scientific Data, Nature’s open access scientific journal. The report says that some 6,000 glaciers have disappeared from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the average temperature increased at twice the global average rate.