Nepal and China on Thursday resolved a long- standing row over the height of the world

The project on Validating Community-Based Water Resources

Biodiversity is declining seriously on a global scale, underscoring the importance of conservation planning.
Except protected areas and reserve forests, scientific studies on biodiversity of special habitats in India are meager like the other areas of the world. Furthermore, extensive surveys of biodiversity have not been conducted for a majority of taxonomic groups and ecosystem types.

In this latest report ICIMOD has highlighted the vulnerability of the Eastern Himalayan ecosystems to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality.

The overall objective of the conference was to discuss the role of mountains as early indicators of climate change and the impact of global warming on mountain ecosystems. Specially, the actual state and the open gaps of scientific research were presented on several early indicators and in different mountain regions around the world.

This report presents 10 examples of
Ecosystem-based Adaptation taking
place in both developing and developed countries, at national, regional, and local scales, and in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater environments.

Q&A: Maharaj K Pandit, director of the CISMHE
Latha Jishnu / New Delhi November 20, 2009, 0:40 IST

Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday emphasised the need for greater engagement and coordination with all the country

Udhagamandalam: Having been formed by a band of conservation minded persons way back in 1877 as the Nilgiri Game Association and now known as the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWLEA), the oldest conservation association in the country is set to give an impetus to the role it has been playing over the years in safeguarding the fragile eco-system of the Blue Mountains.

Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation

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