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Indian floods: thousands stranded in northern Himalayas

2013-06-21 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: The Indian air force has dropped food and medicine to assist tens of thousands of people trapped in up to 100 towns and villages cut off by monsoon rains and landslides in the northern Himalayas. Soldiers and other workers reopened dozens of roads by building makeshift bridges, accelerating the evacuation of nearly 62,000 people, said a Uttarakhand state spokesman, Amit Chandola. More than 2,000 vehicles carrying stranded Hindu pilgrims have travelled from the area since Thursday, he said....

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Glaciers in the Himalayas Are RetreatingBut Why?

2013-03-02 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: One of the Climate News Network's editors, Kieran Cooke, was among a group of journalists recently investigating the impact of climate change in Nepal and the Himalayas. In the last of his reports from the region he describes the difficulties of establishing why so many of Nepal's glaciers appear to be shrinking. Mohan Bdr. Chand is at the sharp end of glacier research. A climate researcher at Kathmandu University, Chand is carrying out vital field work, looking at high mountain glaciers as indicators...

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Himalayas should brace for 'mega quake' this century

2013-01-01 13:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: A 'mega earthquake' is likely to strike the Himalayas this century, causing catastrophic landslides and floods and killing more than 40,000 people, Indian and US geologists have warned. Scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute of India and Stanford University, United States, analysed the fault that separates the Asian and Indian continental plates. Images of the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT) fault showed that a segment of it dips downwards by 15 degrees, and is steeper and...

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