Tibetans Take on Tall Order of Everest Cleanup
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Tibetan volunteers are planning a trip to the top of the world's tallest mountain to pick up garbage.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space age generations.
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Melting glaciers caused by climate change pose an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.
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Chinese authorities have been forcing Tibetans to sign a petition opposing the Dalai Lama's return, a London-based group said, in apparent retaliation for the award of a high U.S. honor to Tibet's spiritual leader.
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On a dusty river bed in the shadow of the Potala Palace, home of Tibet&#39;s exiled Dalai Lama, a bridge is rising that China says will bring prosperity to the Roof of the World.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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DAY&#39;S DRAMA: Rangers complete the precarious rescue of two climbers from a snowy mountain and remove the frozen bodies of two other hikers who died in a raging early blizzard in California&#39;s Sierras.
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Environmentalists around the world are holding their heads a little higher. Wangari Maathai is being honored for her work in preserving the earth.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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The largest international disaster relief effort in history shifted into high gear yesterday as aid agencies across the globe began shipping water purification kits and other supplies to survivors along the ...
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Global warming threatens to cause violent weather conditions worldwide. Mount Qomolangma is no exception. Environmentalists say Mount Qomolangma, also known as Everest, should
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A visitor to Patong in Thailand describes the clean-up operation following the devastation left by the tsunami waves.
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A huge clean-up operation was under way Saturday in some of Mozambique's most popular resorts as the southern African nation's fledgling tourist industry struggled to recover from a devastating cyclone that left tens of thousands homeless.
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NYINGCHI, China  - To Tibetans, China and the  ruling Communist Party seem to have offered them a clear choice  -- you are either with us or against us.
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Tibet's second-holiest monk, the Panchen Lama, has visited Lhasa on a rare trip to the Himalayan region by the living Buddha, whose selection in 1995 was marred by controversy after the exiled Dalai Lama chose another boy.
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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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A Sherpa guide who sprinted up Mount Everest in eight hours and 10 minutes will keep the record for the fastest climb up the world's highest peak, Nepalese mountaineering officials said Thursday.