Tibetan Glaciers Shrinking Rapidly: comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing winds

Tibetan Glaciers Shrinking Rapidly: comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing winds

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The majority of glaciers on the Tibetan plateau - 100,000 square kilometers of glaciers that supply water to about 1.4 billion people in Asia - and in the surrounding region - are retreating rapidly, according to a study based on 30 years of satellite and field measurements. The research by...

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Water from glaciers for the arid regions: monitoring the Baltoro

Water from glaciers for the arid regions: monitoring the Baltoro

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In the arid climate of northern Pakistan, glacial melt water represents nearly all water usable by the population. Monitor the evolution of the Baltoro, is the objective of the project, elaborated by the researchers of Polytechnic and of the University of Milan and coordinated by EvK2Cnr, within the Seed and...

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World Environment Day: EvK2CNR disseminates climate education in the schools of Nepal

World Environment Day: EvK2CNR disseminates climate education in the schools of Nepal

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What does the word "climate" mean? What are climate change and global warming? How do these things affect our lives, animals, plants and mountains? These are simple, but important questions that school children from the Khumbu Valley in Nepal, will face in the occasion of World Environment Day established by...

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High Pamir/Pamir-Alai Mountains: Transborder Legal Institutions

High Pamir/Pamir-Alai Mountains: Transborder Legal Institutions

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The "Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains" GEF/UNEP/UNU Project is located in the transboundary mountain ecosystem shared between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The project was established to alleviate poverty, control land degradation and develop ways to rehabilitate ecosystems in the Pamirs. The University of New...

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Climate change adaptation in Africa

Climate change adaptation in Africa's "living places"

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In order to set in motion the development of an enhanced mountain agenda for Africa, international experts, researchers and journalists from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe met in Mbale, Uganda, for three days (November 2011). Together, they...

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United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2012)

United Nations General Assembly Resolution: Sustainable Mountain Development (2012)

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on Sustainable mountain development at the 66th Session. A/RES/66/205

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