Himalaya needs UN heritage status as glaciers melt-greens
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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 generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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PARIS -- Children in Norway plead for snow. Polar researchers describe melting glaciers. Some experts say that within this century, the Arctic may no longer be ice-locked.
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Environmentalists, who have recognized the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea as a wildlife refuge, are pressing to preserve it.
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Â· Up to 900 threatened by 2050, says global analysisÂ· Habitat loss dwarfs effects of climate change
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Pakistan protested a plan by India to let tourists visit the Kashmir glacier that is the site of the world's highest battlefield, warning Monday that it could harm peace talks between the South Asian neighbors.
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Scientists say global warming could extinguish Boliviaâs skiing tradition when its only ski run disappears forever in a few years.
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India and Pakistan said Wednesday they were considering scaling back thousands of troops from the Siachen Glacier, the world&#39;s highest battlefield, and reported other progress
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WASHINGTON - Scientists say changes in the earth&#39;s climate from human influences are occurring particularly intensely in the Arctic region, evidenced by widespread melting of glaciers, thinning sea ice and rising permafrost temperatures.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - Until now, the Alaskan oil industry and polar bears have coexisted peacefully, but proposals by the U.S. government to list polar bears as endangered by global warming have cast a shadow on oil development on Alaska's North Slope.
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Switzerland's glaciers are melting faster than expected, shrinking by as much as one-fifth of their size over the 1985-2000 period alone, scientists at Zurich University said on Monday.
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TORONTO (CP) - Arctic governments must cut emissions of carbon dioxide immediately or face the extinction of species, damaging storms and flooding, says the World Wildlife Fund.
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Global warming is melting Ecuador's cherished mountain glaciers and could cause several of them to disappear over the next two decades, Ecuadorean and French scientists said on Wednesday.
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The newly elected president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) said Wednesday that global warming and the lack of protected marine zones were key challenges that needed to be hoisted high on the green agenda.
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A distinguished group of scientists from Arctic nations, looking at the science on global warming, has issued a report that should give every Alaskan pause.
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By Jayne Clark  For the first time, global climate change has joined political conflict and development pressures as an underlying threat to cultural heritage sites, as cataloged by the World Monuments Fund on its biennial list of the 100 most endangered places.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes  inhospitable to prized species.