`Gaumukh` to be out of bounds for tourists for eco reasons

Last Updated: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 09:59

Tourists will not be allowed to go near `Gaumukh`, the source of the Ganga, with the Uttarakhand government imposing a total ban on trekking to the spot to protect receding Himalayan glaciers from human activities.

Himalayan glaciers retreated by 16 % in nearly 5 decades: ISRO

Last Updated: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 19:08

Himalayan glaciers retreated by 16 per cent in the last nearly five decades due to climate change, investigations by India`s scientists in selected basins in four states has revealed.

Need for precise information on climate change: Shyam Saran

Last Updated: Monday, February 8, 2010, 14:10

Against the backdrop of an IPCC report making a wrong conclusion about Himalayan glaciers melting, Prime Minister`s Special Envoy on Climate Change Shyam Saran harped on more research to generate precise information on the matter.

Glacier melting issue: Soot from India causing decline in ice cover

Last Updated: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 15:39

Now a physicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Surabhi Menon has set out to isolate impacts of greenhouse gases.

`Errors in report do not undermine case of global warming`

Last Updated: Monday, January 25, 2010, 18:53

An Australian scientist, who co-authoured the controversial climate change report, on Monday tried to defend the errors found in it, saying the discovery of the mistakes does not undermine the case of global warming.

BASIC ministers support IPCC despite Himalayan blunder

Last Updated: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 19:55

Environment ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India, China came out in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) despite its blunder in saying Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

Pachauri won`t quit over glacier blunder

Last Updated: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 16:15

Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Saturday said he would not quit.

Himalayan glaciers are in retreat: UN body

Last Updated: Friday, January 22, 2010, 21:26

Himalayan glaciers are retreating, and small glaciers will probably disappear by the end of the century, the UN body in charge of the Himalayas said Friday.

IPCC chief goes mum on Himalayan glacier blunder

Last Updated: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 15:55

RK Pachauri, head of the IPCC, refused to answer any question on the goof-up by the global scientists` group which made it carry in its 2007 report an unsubstantiated claim that Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

Himalayan glaciers won’t retreat by 2035: Ramesh

Last Updated: Monday, January 18, 2010, 20:51

Jairam Ramesh dismissed the IPCC report which claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten 1.3 bn

Last Updated: Monday, December 7, 2009, 11:29

Melting Himalayan glaciers threaten to bring drought to large swathes of the Asian continent.

Govt findings on Himalayan glaciers misleading: NGO

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 23:20

Terming the Environment Ministry`s recent report on non-receding of Himalayan glaciers as false complacency, a research foundation on ecology today claimed the findings were misleading.