Errors discovered in UN report on melting glaciers; scientists say main findings still hold Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of ...
More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, ...
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. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 22 other ministers underwent medical ...
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. Nepal's cabinet is due to hold a meeting on Friday on ...
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. Nepal's cabinet is due to hold a meeting on Friday on ...
An international project that prevented a glacial lake in Bhutan from bursting its banks underlined how climate change can be tackled by adaptation, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said efforts by local and ...
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. Twenty-six ministers, together with staff, will travel to the town ...
Officials say renowned climber Tomaz Humar found dead after getting stranded in the Himalayas 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 ...
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. Asian Trekking said rescuers discovered Tomaz Humar's body during an aerial search of the 7,234-metre (23,700-foot) Langtang Lirung peak ...
Injured Slovenian climber stranded in the Himalayas, rescue attempt under way, colleague says A veteran Slovenian mountaineer has become stranded in the Himalayas during a solo climb, and bad weather is hampering rescue efforts, a colleague said Thursday. Tomaz Humar last contacted ...
