Archive for March, 2008
HIMALAYAN GLACIERS MAY DISAPPEAR WITHIN DECADES
Himalayan glaciers are melting fast and may disappear within decades, affecting as many as 750 million people downstream who depend on the glacial melt for their water, according to a new UN report. Rivers in the region such as the Ganges, the Indus and the Brahmaputra, as well as others criss-crossing northern India may soon [...]
Russia’s snow leopard population declines by half
Source: Russian News and Information Agency NOVOSIBIRSK, March 7 (RIA Novosti) – The number of snow leopards in Russia’s southwestern Siberian Altai Republic has fallen from 40 in the late 1990s to 10-15, the director of the Gorny Altai nature preserve said on Friday. Russia has an estimated total of 100 large mountain [...]