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Mass loss from the glaciers along the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is increasingly contributing to sea level rise. However, ice loss as a result of accelerated flow, known as dynamic thinning, is so poorly understood that its potential future contribution to sea level remains unpredictable.

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India: Kashmir

The Mongolia: Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009 (MARCC 2009) brings together the findings of climate change research in Mongolia for the first time, to raise awareness of decision makers and the general public so that they can develop appropriate responses to the challenges and threats.

While relatively little is known definitively about the glaciers of the Himalaya and Hindukush, what facts do exist need to be acknowledged as such.

The receding glaciers of the Himalaya offer a critical case study of the region

Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation

Plans talks with neighbours, biodiversity mapping.

Recognising the importance of the Indian Himalayas as a unique repository of biodiversity, and as part of the official mission for sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has released guidelines on this.

The role of the tropics in triggering, transmitting, and amplifyinginterhemispheric climate signals remains a key debate in paleoclimatology.Tropical glacier fluctuations provide important insight on regionalpaleoclimatic trends and forcings, but robust chronologies arescarce.

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