Concern over Everest death rate
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People still die on Everest, despite improved technology and environmental knowledge, a doctor warns.
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Mount Everest should be put on a United Nations danger list as global warming threatens the Himalayan region, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
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The rate of sudden unexplained cardiac death  is around eight times higher than thought, warn experts.
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The UN and human rights groups express concern over the number of people who disappear in Nepal.
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The rate of sudden unexplained cardiac death is around eight times higher than thought, warn experts.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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(Indianapolis-December 28, 2004) - The number of confirmed deaths from the tsunamis in South Asia is now more than 52,000. As that number continues to climb, efforts to reach out are gearing up here in Indianapolis.
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A deadly UK heatwave may be imminent, but climate change may mean fewer temperature-related deaths, a report says.
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Nepal's Sherpas went into mourning Thursday at the death of Sir Edmund Hillary and pledged to ensure his legacy lives on in the community he has helped since the first conquest of Everest in 1953.
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GENEVA The World Health Organization says at least 70-thousand people have died in refugee camps in Sudan since March. The new WHO death toll estimate is 20-thousand higher than one it released last month.
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A record 514 people have so far conquered Mount Everest in this year's main climbing season, the biggest number since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first climbed the world's highest mountain in 1953, a top mountaineering official said.
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malnutrition and disease meant the monthly fatality rate was about 10,000. The previous overall death toll had stood at 50,000. People were dying despite the aid effort and the world
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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WHEN Scots turn up the heat the rest of the world dies a little, a report by an international conservation charity claimed yesterday.
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Nepal's Sherpa community was plunged into mourning Friday over the death of Sir Edmund Hillary, a "second father" to a people whose sacred peak Everest he became the first man to conquer in 1953.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters Life!) - Mountaineers from four countries will try to climb Mount Everest in April, hoping their feat will raise global awareness on the impact of climate change in the Himalayas, organizers said on Monday.
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Evidence emerges of growing concern over the scale of UK troop casualties in Afghanistan.