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Climate change is coming fast and furious to the Tibetan plateau. Jane Qiu reports on the changes atop the roof of the world.

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Jane Qiu writes for Nature from Beijing. See Editorial, page 367, and News Feature, page 384 For a podcast and more on China see www.nature.com/news/specials/china/

Qiu, J. China: The third pole.Nature 454, 393–396 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/454393a