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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Trends in high places
Traditional timber and slate houses vs a neo concrete nightmare in a Himachal village
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Ecotourism: Scrambling for paradise
Does tourism always have to be a threat to the environment? Not anymore, claim the promoters of the globally emerging industry of ecotourism. Socially responsible and ecologically sustainable tourism, which could at the same time be profitable for the com
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Local lessons
Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages
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Clearing the trash
Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain and the world's highest garbage dump. A four-nation Asian team will clear the 8,850-metre high peak of mounds of oxygen cylinders, plastic, food cans,
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Mounting problem
Human activities are degrading mountain ranges worldwide
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Manager Of Hope
DEWAN SINGH AGE 95 VILLAGE LATA He remembers accompanying the last expedition to Nanda Devi peak, the country's second highest peak, which falls within the Nanda Devi Biosphere reserve (NDBR).
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Shrouded in controversy
A mountaineering expedition into the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve revives the debate on ecotourism and people s rights over forests.
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Keep on the grass
Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies
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Mountains that matter
The United Nations declares 2002 as the International Year of the Mountains
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Meltdown
Latest NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) satellite maps reveal that most of the world's glaciers are shrinking. Rick Wessels of the US Geographical Survey, based in Arizona,