China's Tibet region is getting warmer and wetter due to global climate change, data from the regional climate centre has shown.
Tibet's average temperature climbed 0.42 degrees Celsius per decade from 1981 to 2017, while average annual precipitation has increased by 11 millimetres every 10 years.
The average temperature in 2017 was 5.7 degrees Celsius, the third-highest since 1981. Average annual rainfall last year was 492.4 millimetres, 32.2 millimetres more than average, state-run Xinhua news agency reported quoting the centre's data.
Scientists believe the change in temperature and precipitation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the result of global climate change, which has expanded the temperate zone and forced the frigid and the sub frigid zones in Tibet to move westward and northward, it said.
The overall environment in the highlands is good, scientists said, according to the report.