Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change

2010-03-04T06:30:28Z

<div><p>SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska.</p><p>Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two miles over the past 200 years as it tries to strike a new balance with rising temperatures.</p><p>At the UN report on melting glaciers; scientists say main findings still hold</div><div><p>Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and p...

Creating a Unique Orchid - Hybrids Are the Rage

2010-02-22T20:04:45Z

Those who have grown orchids know it can become habit forming. Many growers spend countless hours researching the pronunciation of Latin names. What is the special fascination with these flowers?<br><br>Orchid varieties come in a vast assortment. Over 25,000 species occur naturally, and the artificial hybrids number at over 100,000 recognized by official botanical organizations. Artificial hybrids don't mean that scientists have created new organisms from the soil,...

Scarves and Shawls Are Not Just For Ladies

2010-02-23T17:38:56Z

Have you ever seen guys wearing scarves and or shawls in public places - in malls, theaters, restaurants, parks, and others - without other people looking at them with a quizzical frown on their faces? Chances are, you will be one of five Americans who think that such pieces of garment are for ladies only.<br><br>Oh, you are in for the surprise of your life!<br><br>Try browsing through modern fashion catalogues as well as magazines. Scan...

Nepal Climate Change

2009-12-07T04:18:11Z

A Nepalese Buddhist monk performs religious rituals to pray for the protection of earth from climate change and negative impact of global warming on Himalayas, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Dec. 7, 2009. Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, creating lakes with walls that could burst and flood villages below. Melting ice and ...

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 bln Asians

2010-02-23T20:08:03Z

<div><p>More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent.</p><p>Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan,

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 billion Asians

2010-02-23T20:15:03Z

Nepal cabinet meets at Everest to send climate message

2010-02-23T21:03:38Z

<div><p>SYANGBOCHE, Nepal (Reuters) - Nepal's cabinet began a meeting close to the base camp of Mount Everest on Friday to send a message on the impact of global warming on the Himalayas, days before global climate talks start in

Nepalese cabinet holds Everest meeting

2010-02-23T20:45:02Z

<div><p>Nepalese ministers equipped with oxygen tanks battled freezing temperatures to meet in the shadow of Mount Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.</p><p>Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 22 other ministers travelled by...

Nepal holds highest Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest

2010-02-23T20:51:58Z

<div id="subtitle">Nepal holds world's highest Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest to spotlight climate change</div><div><p>Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate cha...

Nepalese cabinet to hold Everest meeting

2010-02-23T21:05:45Z

<div><p>Nepalese ministers prepared Friday to fly to a remote mountain plateau in the shadow of Everest for a high-altitude cabinet meeting to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.</p><p>Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 22 other ministers underwent medical tests on Friday before being declared fit to ...

Nepal ministers gather for Everest meeting

2010-02-23T21:29:19Z

<div><p>Nepalese ministers arrived Thursday in Lukla, one of the main towns in the Everest region, ahead of a high-altitude cabinet meeting to stress the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.</p><p>Nepal's cabinet is due to hold a meeting on Friday on a plateau 5,262 metres (17,192 feet) high, in the shadow of Himalayas.</p><p>Nepal's cabinet is due to hold a meeting on Friday on a plateau 5,262 metres (17,192 feet) high, in the shadow of Bhutan from bursting its banks underlined how climate change can be tackled by adaptation, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday.</p><p>The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said efforts by local and international agencies earlier this year redu...

Nepal government to hold Everest climate meeting

2010-02-23T23:41:11Z

<div><p>Nepal's cabinet will meet in the shadow of Mount Everest next week to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, officials...

Nepal cabinet to meet in Everest's shadow

2010-02-23T23:42:23Z

<div><p>Nepal's cabinet will meet in the shadow of Mount Everest next week to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of UN climate talks in Copenhagen, officials said Saturday.</p&...

Officials: veteran climber Humar dies in Himalayas

2010-02-24T05:32:39Z

<div id="subtitle">Officials say renowned climber Tomaz Humar found dead after getting stranded in the Himalayas</div><div><p>Veteran Slovenian climber Tomaz Humar was found dead in the Himalayas on Saturday, days after he was injured and stranded on a 23,710-foot (7,227-meter) mountain, a mountain rescue company and a close friend said.&...

Famed Slovenian mountaineer found dead in Nepal

2010-02-24T05:32:49Z

<div><p>A well-known Slovenian mountaineer who went missing during a solo climb in Nepal's Himalayas has been found dead, his expedition organisers said Saturday.</p><p>Asian Trekking said rescuers discovered Tomaz Humar's body during an aerial search of the 7,234-metre (23,700-foot) Langtang Liru...

NEPAL-CLIMATE-WARMING-HIMALAYAS-GLACIERS-FILES

2009-09-09T06:55:52Z

TO GO WITH Nepal-climate-warming-Himalayas-glaciers,FOCUS by Subel Bhandari(FILES) This undated file picture shows the world's tallest mountain Mount Everest at 8848 meters, standing in front of Khumbu Glacier, one of the longest glaciers in the world. Nepal has more than 2,300 glacial lakes and experts say at least 20 are in danger of bursting. G...

NEPAL-CLIMATE-HIMALAYAS-GLACIERS

2009-08-29T09:31:50Z

TO GO WITH 'Nepal-SAsia-climate-warming-Himalayas' by Claire CozensIn this undated picture the world's tallest mountain Mt Everest at 8848 meters stand in front of Khumbu Glacier, one of the longest glaciers in the world. Nepal has more than 2,300 glacial lakes and experts say at least 20 are in danger of bursting. Glaciologists say that it's happ...

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