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• HKS Snow Update 2025

  <p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal &mdash; the lowest in 23 years. This trend,

  • 18/04/2025

  • International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
  • • Mountains
    • Mountain Ecosystems
    • Himalaya
    • Security
    • River
    • Brahmaputra
    • Drinking Water Scarcity

• Disappearing alpines

  snowy alpine regions of Australia are shrinking because of global warming, claim scientists. "The alpines may disappear completely within the next 70 years,' opines John Morgan, a botanist at the

  • 30/05/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • Global Warming
    • Research
    • Australia
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  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. Himalaya : Life on the edge of the world, is one such labour of

  • 30/05/2001

  • • Environment
    • Ecosystems
    • Mountains
    • Land Use
    • Ecology
    • Himalaya
    • Deforestation
    • Economy
    • Geology
    • Research
    • Asia
    • India
    • Environment Management
    • Land Degradation

• CLEANING EVEREST

  Sherpa climbers will be paid to collect garbage dumped on Mount Everest by the Nepal Mountaineering Association. The sherpas usually act as guides and carry supplies for people climbing the Everest,

  • 30/03/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • Garbage
    • Nepal
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  TANZANIA

  One third of Mount Kilimanjaro's ice fields have completely melted in the last two decades and the rest of the mountain's ice could disappear by 2015, says Lonnie Thompson, a professor at the us

  • 30/03/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • Water Distribution
    • Drinking Water
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Tanzania

• SAVING HABITAT

  The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nepal, has launched a 100-year programme for the conservation of the western Terai and Chure hills, one of the best habitats for Royal Bengal tiger, one

  • 14/03/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • WWF
    • Nepal
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  JAPAN

  Volunteers with mountain-climbing experience have been employed to plant trees on the slopes of Mikurajima island, south of Tokyo. Landslides had devastated the greenery on these slopes when a

  • 30/05/2000

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountaineering
    • Mountains
    • Afforestation
    • Storms
    • Japan

• Old as the mountains

  Geologists have known for long that formation of mountains affects the Earth's ecosystems. But due to the uncertainty in establishing the age of the highest mountains, the relationship between

  • 14/05/2000

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • Geology
    • Research
    • United States Of America (US)

• Imbalances need to be improved

  <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Egbert Pelinck</font></font> , director general, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ICIMOD , Kathmandu, spoke to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Prakash Khanal</font> </font> on conservation

  • 14/07/1998

  • ICIMOD
  • • Mountains
    • Development
    • NGO
    • Nepal
    • Kathmandu

• Missing every mountain

  To prevent collisions of aeroplanes with mountains, several major airlines have announced plans to install a satellite-based navigation system in the cockpits of planes. The equipment, called

  • 14/07/1998

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mountains
    • Air Transport
    • Scientific And Technical Development

• We have not been good listeners

  The G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, is among the few in the world that concentrate on issues related to mountains. Its director, <font class='UCASE'>L M S Palni</font> , dwelt on the need to develop s

  • 30/10/1997

  • • Mountains
    • Himalaya
    • Almora (D)
    • Sustainable Development