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Himalayan climate change action urgedKathmandu, Nepal (UPI) Oct 5, 2010 More regional and bilateral cooperation is needed to tackle climate change in the Himalayas, an Indian official said. "The behavior of Himalayan glaciers is fundamentally different from that of glaciers in the polar regions and they need special investigation and analysis," Indian Minister for Environment and Forests Shri Jairam Ramesh said Monday, The Himalayan Times reports. "Biodiversity does not stop at geographical boundaries and countries have no choice but to work together for pro ... read more |
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Chennai, India (PTI) Sep 27, 2010The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to replace two of its ageing satellites with new ones by December, an official said Thursday. The agency is planning to send in space two rockets for the purpose. First to fly towards the heavens will be ISRO's heavy rocket - the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) - sometime during the second week of December carrying a commun ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2010China issued a health alert in its southwestern region of Tibet Sunday after five people were diagnosed with the plague, an often fatal infectious disease. One of the five has already died from a severe lung infection attributed to the pneumonic plague, while one other patient was in a critical condition, the Tibet health department said in a statement on its website. The outbreak was fi ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2010Severe storms and floods sweeping Asia this week have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands across large swathes of the continent, with more storms forecast. Record monsoon rain and the onslaught of tropical storm Fanapi wreaked devastation from South Korea to India, triggering landslides, washing away thousands of homes and tearing through roads and railways. Thirt ... more |
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India pessimistic about climate summitNew York (UPI) Sep 21, 2010 India's environment minister painted a pessimistic picture of the December U.N. climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico. "I think frankly Cancun is headed nowhere because the financial commitments made by the developed countries at Copenhagen have not been fulfilled and are unlikely to be fulfilled in any substantial measure," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told the Press Trust of India on the sidelines of the Major Economies Forum meeting in New York Monday. Delegates from around th ... read more |
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