UN World Water Development Report 2025
<p>For billions of people, mountain meltwater is essential for drinking water and sanitation, food and energy security, and the integrity of the environment. But today, as the world warms, glaciers are
Mountains
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Linking geodata with biodiversity information in the himalayas
The inventory and assessment of biodiversity resources have become essential for policy-making and management strategies as well as for developing and testing scientific hypotheses. There is an increasing need to compile mountain biodiversity databases and to make them available on-line.
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Research strategy on global change in mountain biosphere reserves
The one-day workshop aimed at discussing how the GLOCHAMORE (Global Change in Mountain Regions)research strategy for mountain biosphere reserves and other mountain protected areas could be implemented.
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Climate change adaptation strategies for pastoral communites of Mongolia's central mountainous region
This research aims to investigate change and transformation of open pastoral social-ecological systems in Mongolia and develop climate change adaptation options for pastoral communities with participation of herders, local and national governmental officers and scientists.
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Forest governance challenges on Mount Cameroon
Mt. Cameroon, part of the Cameroon Highlands ecoregion, is the highest peak in West/Central Africa. The Cameroon Highlands is a biodiversity hotspot and its fertile volcanic soil has also made it a hotspot for both subsistence and commercial agricultural activities since the late 19th century.
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Dimensions of global change in African mountains: The example of Mount Kenya
This paper discusses the effects of global change in African mountains, with the example of Mount Kenya. The geographical focus is the northwestern, semi-arid foot zone of the mountain (Laikipia District). Over the past 50 years, this area has experienced rapid and profound transformation, the respective processes of which are all linked to global change.
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The Chagga homegardens on Kilimanjaro
Diversity and refuge function for indigenous fauna and flora in anthropogenically influenced habitats in tropical regions under global change on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
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The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau
Scientists have gained new insights in the exact timeline of events that led to the rise of the Tibet plateau, described as the 'roof of the world'. US scientists who pieced together the geological puzzle say the rise of the plateau, due to collision of India with Asia about 50 million years ago, is closely linked to movement of the earth in the Pacific Ocean.
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Policy priorities for sustainable mountain development
The workshop,
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China closes Everest for clean-up operation
London China has decided to restrict access to Mount Everest to carry out a clean-up of the world's highest
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China plans Mt. Everest cleanup
BY CHRISTOPHER BODEEN China is planning a major cleanup operation for Mount Everest in 2009 and may limit the number of climbers and other visitors, Tibet's environmental protection chief was quoted as saying on Monday. The cleanup and new measures are planned for the second half of 2009, Zhang Yongze told the official Xinhua News Agency. China has already enacted some restrictions, including forbidding vehicles from driving directly to the base camp which is at 16,995 feet (5,180 metres), Mr Yongze said.