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After the flood: climate change blamed for Himalayan tragedy
2013-10-13 15:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: Before the flood, says Chandan Singh Rawat, who runs a ramshackle tea house perched above the mountain torrent of the upper Ganges, business was great. We didnt even have time to talk to people. But four months after flash floods swept down the Himalayan valleys of the Ganges tributaries in India, killing nearly 6,000 people and sweeping away roads and bridges, locals such as Mr Rawat have time on their hands and little source of income. We live from day to day, he says. Every year, tens...
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Himalayan researcher reverses earlier findings of looming water shortage
2013-08-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: One of the big unknowns of climate change predictions -- and one that has led to considerable contention -- lies in knowing the future of water runoff from the Himalayas. The snow- and ice-rich region supplies water for billions of people in Asia and is sometimes referred to as the Earth's "Third Pole." For years, scientists struggled to understand how precipitation will change in these mountains (ClimateWire, Oct. 24, 2011). They have also had difficulty determining how much glacier melt from the...
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Himalayan Landslides Devastate Infrastructure in Northern India
2013-06-24 20:36:34| ENR.com: Headline News
The Himalayan disaster has exposed weaknesses in emergency management policies in a growing country struggling to adopt a sustainable and integrated infrastructure network.
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