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Impact of climate change on animals in Himalayas

2016-06-30 11:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Times Of India: While the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has launched a long-term monitoring studies in five Himalayan states including Himachal Pradesh to document the impact of climate change on animal biodiversity, a study conducted by State Centre on Climate Change, Himachal Pradesh, has already found that in Himachal Pradesh a number of diseases occurred in the past ten years. Some diseases among these are worsened by climate change including influenza, cholera, babesiosis, verminous pneumonia, tuberculosis,...

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Himalayas tune in radio shows to reduce climate disaster risk

2014-12-13 08:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: "You know, humans do not understand that unless I am there to hold on to the soil, you will not be there either," the tree tells the mountain. "Yes, but ... villagers demand a road, the politician pushes for it and they cut parts of me and cut you and your folks too, and then there is a landslide!" replies the mountain. This unusual dialogue is heard by several thousand people tuned to Venval Vani, a community radio station based in Chamba in Uttarakhand, which was devastated by severe flooding...

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Global warming behind loss in area of glaciers in Himalayas

2014-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AMT: The second international conference on Cryosphere of the Hindu Kush Himalayas: State of Knowledge organised by International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Embassy of the United States in Kathmandu has launched a publication titled Status and Decadal Glacier Change from 1980s to 2010 in Nepal based on Satellite Data. The 100-page research report provides an analysis of four decades of glacier data from Nepal. In addition, ICIMOD...

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Indias diesel fumes impacting glacier melt in Himalayas

2014-03-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: Being a traffic policeman in Kolkata is a life-threatening business. Not only are you at risk of being run over on the traffic-clogged roads and streets of this chaotic city of 14 million -- you're also more than likely to suffer from serious health problems due to some of the worst air pollution not just in India, but in the world. According to a 2012 report by the New Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment on air quality in Kolkata, seven out of every 10 people in the city suffer from...

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