GANGTOK, July 12: Apparently concerned with the adverse impact of global warming and climate change in Sikkim, the State Government has given additional mandate of climate change issues to the Science and Technology Department, an official release said today.
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Indian scientists, who have been monitoring fluctuations in the continental ice margin at the Western Schirmacher range in Antarctica, have found a recession of about 7 metres ice per decade
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