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Headline	Author	Published	Section
In the shadow of Mount Everest Small countries are going green	Maywa Montenegro	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
While the western media focuses primarily on what the developed world is doing to solve the climate crisis, there's some great coverage on how Third World countries are greening too. SciDev's 'Science in the Himalayas,' a series of editorials and features, gives credence to the notion that local, community efforts can be just as effective as large-scale centralized ones. And low-tech solutions are often just as good as their high-tech counterparts. Nepal's succes ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Nepal (all these topics)

Leave no trace. Seriously, don't. Mountaineering teams organize to clean up the world's highest mountain peaks	Todd Hymas Samkara	22 Sep 2005	Gristmill
A few months ago, gutsy French test pilot Didier Delsalle landed a helicopter on top of Mount Everest in 75 mph hour winds -- no, not crashed -- quite obviously the highest landing place on earth. He was the first to successfully summit Everest by copter. And just to make sure it wasn't a fluke, he did it twice. The previous highest helicopter landing was some 9,035 feet lower, at about 20,000 feet, the record set in 1996 by Nepalese pilot Madan Khatri Chhetri ...
Topics: Nepal, sports, waste (all these topics)

Himalaya Hatas Himalayan glaciers melting; catastrophe in the wings		11 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Himalaya Hatas Himalayan glaciers melting; catastrophe in the wings Researchers are raising alarms about the rapid rate of melting in Himalayan glaciers, the lack of current scientific data and monitoring thereof, and the possibility of resulting catastrophic floods in the short term and water shortages in the long term. Some 2,300 of the Nepalese Himalayas' 3,300 glaciers contain glacial lakes, and many of those lakes are swelling behind d ...
Topics: climate, Nepal (all these topics)

CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer		11 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
CF-Seized Illegal Trading of CFCs Imperils Ozone Layer Smuggling of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals is on the rise, interfering with efforts to repair the Earth's protective ozone layer, the London-based Environment Investigation Agency said in a report released yesterday. As deadlines approach for phasing out CFCs, which are used in ...
Topics: air pollution, Cambodia, China, climate, Nepal, pollution and waste, Russia, toxics, United States, Vietnam (all these topics)

Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Into Thin Air, and Thick Refuse In the 50 years since Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary first scaled Mt. Everest, so much refuse piled up on the world's highest mountain that some took to calling it the world's highest garbage dump. By the early 1990s, an estimated 50 tons of metal, glass, and plastic, including many hundreds of abandoned oxygen canisters, had been lef ...
Topics: Nepal, outdoor recreation, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

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