KATHMANDU, NOV 29 - The government will discuss climate change and global warming issues at the historic Cabinet meeting to be held at Kalapathar (5,250 metres above the sea level) on Dec. 4, said officials on Sunday. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will later present the conclusions of the meeting at the UN

Greenland has lost about 1,500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, which is responsible for one-sixth of global sea level rise, scientists have claimed.

N. GOPAL RAJ

An official discussion paper on the status of Himalayan glaciers is coming under fire. The paper, issued recently by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, argued that the glaciers, which nourish several great rivers such as the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, have not retreated abnormally. It also questioned the link between climate change and the glaciers

RASHME SEHGAL

The controversy over the retreating Himalayan glaciers has taken a new turn with Dr R.K. Ganjoo, a glaciologist from the Institute of Himalayan Glaciology, insisting these glaciers are not in retreat. Having studied glaciers for the last 30 years, he claimed that while the volume of some glaciers may have thinned, others are, in fact, even expanding.

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Rubbishing the claim by a government-backed study that melting of glaciers was not due to climate change, leading environmentalist R.K.
Pachauri on Sunday dubbed it as "totally unsubstantiated scientific opinion" and flayed environment minister Jairam Ramesh for endorsing it.

RANDEEP RAMESH

Grim forecast: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had warned that Himalayan glaciers were receding at an alarming rate.

A leading climate scientist recently accused India

Guwahati: Union Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh openly clashed over a government-backed report on glacier melting as the former expressed serious displeasure over it.