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UN Climate Chief Won't Resign Over Glacier Warning

LONDON (Jan. 23) -- It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie: Central and Southern Asia are hit by biblical floods when the Himalayan glaciers suddenly melt. After that cataclysm, water no longer flows from the mountains, leaving rivers like the Mekong and Ganges dry and millions facing permanent drought. That...

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Manish Bapna: Climate Justice: Creating Urgency and Safeguarding Rights

The United Nations climate change convention is 20 years old this month.

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Impact of climate change on the Himalaya far less than estimated

A new climate change study , released this past Thursday, has surprised some experts and blown some major holes in the doom and gloom predictions that have been given out in recent years.

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Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region Vulnerable To Climate Change, New Study Says

A series of reports released this week suggest that some of the world's highest mountains are at risk due to climate change.

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500 Million People Will Be Displaced By the Melting Glaciers in Greenland and the Himalyas

The Greenland glaciers are very nearly melted altogether, reports Rob Purves, an Australian environmental consultant and board member of World Wildlife Fund Intl., whom I met last week in Lake Louise, Alberta, one of the wonders of the world and on the UNESCO list of protected places.

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