Climate Change

  Ministries play the blame game

JAGDISH BAHADUR, an expert on glaciers and former joint advisor, department of science and technology, and SYED IQBAL HASNAIN , who heads the Glacier Research Group at Jawaharlal Nehru University, criticise India s lack of a positive response to a rece

Publication Date: 
29/06/2002
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Himalaya, Glaciers, Global Warming, Science, Technology, FAO, UNEP, UNESCO, Bhutan, China, Nepal, Himachal Pradesh
Natural Disasters

 Melting into oblivion

With rising atmospheric temperatures, glaciers worldwide are rapidly melting. This is a disaster in the

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
Ritu Gupta
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Himalaya, Glaciers, Climate Change, Global Warming, Natural Disasters, Research, Africa, Global
Biodiversity

 United Nations

The world is getting warmer. This can cause glaciers to melt and within the next 10 years, water from Himalayan lakes can come hurtling down in torrents, and result in floods which could threaten

Publication Date: 
14/05/2002
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Ecology, Himalaya, Glaciers, Global Warming, Floods
India

 Pine pressure

Pine culture has altered the Himalayan landscape with disastrous effect on its fragile ecology

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Bhaskar Sinha
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Land Degradation, Himalaya, Forest Resources, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Deodar, Oak, Pine, Sal, Trade, India
Biodiversity

 Meltdown

Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the

Publication Date: 
29/06/2001
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Mountains, Alps, Himalaya, Glaciers, Environmental Science, Remote Sensing, Europe, United States Of America (US), NASA
Environment

 Himalaya s human face

The magic of the Himalaya is heady. It has led many researchers and travelers to record their impression of this mountain range. Hima

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
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Environment, Ecosystems, Mountains, Land Use, Ecology, Himalaya, Deforestation, Economy, Geology, Research, Asia, India, Environment Management, Land Degradation
India

 Scared to leap

Amphibians in India are besieged by numerous threats

Publication Date: 
30/05/2001
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Forests, Himalaya, Western Ghats, Pesticides, Endangered Species, Habitat, Frogs, Life Science, Research, India, Jammu & Kashmir, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Darjiling (D), Diseases
Air Pollution

 Storehouse of water

although the importance of Himalaya-Karakoram as the largest storehouse of fresh water in the lower latitudes, and the important role of their snow and ice in maintaining the flows of the Indus,

Publication Date: 
14/04/2001
Suresh R Chalise
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Freshwater Ecosystems, Himalaya, Glaciers, Water Management, Water Conservation, Hydrology, Research, Sustainable Development
Climate Change

 changing climes

Climate change is a very slow process, notoriously difficult to understand. Is it happening in India? Residents of some Himalayan towns, where the ecology is known to be very sensitive, observe some clear indications of change. It is getting warmer, the

Publication Date: 
29/11/2000
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Ecology, Himalaya, Vegetables, Horticulture, Bees, Global Warming, Flora, Fauna, Birds, Biodiversity, Research, Jammu & Kashmir, Climate Change
Climate Change

 Getting to the core

Drilling of ice cores in the Himalayan glaciers reveal that global warming is altering climate patterns

Publication Date: 
30/10/2000
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Himalaya, Glaciers, Climate Change, Global Warming, Research

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