Everest Needs UNESCO Status as Glaciers Melt-Greens
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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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â¢ Glaciers in the Antarctic and Greenland are melting much faster than expected, and the world&#39;s fastest-receding glacier, the Grand Pacific in Glacier Bay, Alaska, has doubled its rate.
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale Mount Everest.
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The UN's cultural body meets in New Zealand to decide which sites should be given World Heritage status.
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Campaigners petition the UN to take urgent action to protect iconic natural sites from climate change.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists reported on Friday.
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ENVIRONMENT: A four-year study documents Arctic warming, and adventurers say the world needs to take action. BY JOHN MYERS. When Arctic explorer Lonnie Dupre saw two giant glaciers on his map of Greenland, he worried how his group would get around them.
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In a move environmentalists call a modest victory, the world&#39;s eight Arctic nations, including the United States, have agreed that climate change is threatening northern ecosystems and greenhouse gases must be limited.
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High-level climate-change summits this week reveal a supportive environment for action.
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SEATTLE -- As the Bush administration debates much of the world about what to do about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move.
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Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral.
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Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though
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Glaciers are melting faster than before in some regions from the Arctic to the Alps but others are getting bigger, scientists said on Friday.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.
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The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the "frightening" possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday.
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An expert frets about the accelerating retreat of glaciers from mountain peaks. With rates up to 60 meters per year, is it time to redefine the term "glacial"?