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REVIEWS: Toshiba BDX2000 Blu-ray player
Like a Phoenix from the flames, Toshiba has at last put pride where it belongs and jumped on the Blu-ray bandwagon and we're glad it did.
The loser in the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD format war a few years ago, it's taken the Japanese giant almost 2 years to
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U.N. climate panel will probe disputed Himalayan glacier forecast
PARIS—The U.N.‘s panel of climate scientists said on Monday it would probe claims that its doomsday prediction for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers was wrong, even as an expert said he had warned of the mistake.
The new controversy focuses on a
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UN climate report riddled with errors on glaciers
WASHINGTON—Five glaring errors were discovered in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful.
The errors
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UN climate report hurt by errors on glaciers
A Canadian professor has reported five glaring errors in one paragraph of the world's most authoritative report on global warming, forcing the Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists who wrote it to apologize and promise to be more careful.
The
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Himalayan glaciers are in retreat: UN body
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.
It was commenting on another UN report that had admitted it blundered by predicting
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IPCC claims about Himalayan glaciers were not based on science
A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which claimed that the glaciers in the Himalayas were likely to melt within thirty years, was at least in part not based on scientific data.
The IPCC, a United Nations panel,
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UN climate panel blunders again over Himalayan glaciers
The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has
used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth
hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),
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World's "Least Known" Bird Rediscovered in Afghanistan War Zone
The Large-Billed Reed Warbler holds the unfortunate title, according to avian experts, of being the "world's least known bird." For 142 years, since its first observation in 1867, it was only seen alive three times. But that number just jumped to four
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ENVIRONMENT: Indian Glaciologist Fires Back at Climate Sceptics
BANGALORE, India, Jan 26 (IPS) - "It is a fact that
global warming is happening. If the Arctic Sea ice is melting,
how can the Himalayan glaciers not be melting?" glaciologist Syed Iqbal Hasnain
asked indignantly.
Amid the brouhaha over last
week's
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Rosegate
Since his article channeling Steve McIntyre, Rose has become a full-on anti-climate science warrior.
He wrote a story that thoroughly misrepresented Mojib Latif, claiming:
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start
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the awesome Poe poised to return after 10 years of legal battles
Remember Poe? The erudite singer-songwriter burst on the scene in the late-'90s, scoring a massive hit with the single 'Angry Johnny,' the catchy track with the refrain, "I wanna kill you/I wanna blow you ... away." She followed that up a few years
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The Great Glacier Show – Part II
THE great rivers of northern India and Pakistan will run strongly for the next 40 years and then die away, bringing flood followed by famine. That was the grim message last week from the first decade-by-decade forecast for the rivers that drain the
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Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures
The claim in an IPCC report that 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest could disappear through global warming turned out to be unfounded
Photo: LEE FOSTER/ALAMY
It is now six weeks since I launched an investigation, with my colleague Richard North,
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How low can the IPCC go?
The IPCC’s remit is to provide an authoritative assessment of scientific evidence on climate change. In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing
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Sanjay Dutt moves from Gandhigiri to Freedom
Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Dutt has opened a new chapter in his life. From playing a gangster in a dozen odd films to advocating 'gandhigiri' in Lage Raho Munnabhai, he would now be marching to a different beat with Freedom, a film which would take audience
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1000 glaciers in Kashmir to be monitored
Since glaciers are among the most reliable indicators of climate change and because they can have a major influence on water availability, knowledge of the recent changes and future behaviour is of great interest for climate scientists and governing
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Himalaya glacier error cost us dear: Pachauri
The embattled chief of the UN climate change panel admitted on Wednesday that a mistake in a landmark 2007 report had damaged the body's credibility, in an interview with a British newspaper.
But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental
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LBNL on Himalayas: “greenhouse gases alone are not nearly enough to be responsible for the snow melt”
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, and announcement that comes at a very inconvenient time for IPCC and Pachauri while their “Glaciergate” issue rages. Aerosols and black carbon are tagged as the major drivers. And no mention of disappearance by 2035
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World leaders join Manmohan Singh in backing Pachauri
Pitching for a legally binding global treaty to curb global warming, the prime ministers of Norway, Greece, Finland, Slovenia and Bhutan defended the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report's findings about the impact of global warming
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2009 was India's hottest year ever
NEW DELHI: You might have been feeling
the heat for a while but it's official now -- 2009 was the hottest year ever
recorded in India and almost a degree warmer than usual.
The annual
mean temperature for 2009 was 25.55 degrees Celsius, 0.913 degrees
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Leading article: Sceptics have their uses
The climate change sceptics have done us all a favour. This may seem a curious view for a newspaper so committed to the cause of environmental sustainability. But, by challenging the consensus view of global warming, the sceptics have tested the
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Need for precise information on climate change: Shyam Saran
"It is clear that climate is changing. Now we need precise information on the subject," he said.
Saran's views assume significance in the wake of a report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) wrongly concluding that the glaciers in
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Snow still eludes Shimla; likely by Tuesday night
Snowfall continued to elude this Himachal Pradesh capital Tuesday, though higher slopes of the Himalayas had moderate to heavy snow. The weatherman said the snow may fall till the night here.
There has been no snowfall in Shimla for 26 days now. The
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Scientists seek better way to do climate report
No errors have surfaced in the first and most well-known of the reports, which said the physics of a warming atmosphere and rising seas is man-made and incontrovertible. So far, four mistakes have been discovered in the second report, which attempts
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Scientists seek better way to do climate report
WASHINGTON: A steady drip of
unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in
the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming.
The flaws, and the erosion they've caused in public
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Hindus dip in chilly Ganges river during festival
On Jan. 13, it began in Haridwar, a temple-filled town at the foothills of the Himalayas where the Ganges river enters the sprawling plains of northern India. The festival ends April 28.
Thousands of police equipped with closed-circuit television and
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The world's most romantic places to stay
If you need any incentive to cuddle closer to your sweetheart, how about this
— a night in a treetop in the middle of Kruger’s lion country? The treehouse
at Lion Sands safari camp is really just a platform, high in the leadwood
tree that the
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Mountaineer Tony scales new heights
Experienced mountaineer Tony Hodson climbed Mount Aconcagua in Argentina — the tallest mountain in the world outside of the Himalayas.
He originally aimed to collect £6,962 for Help for Heroes — the height in metres of the mountain.
But the fantastic
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Matt Wingard plagiarizes his entire global-warming diatribe
As I listened to Wingard's speech, it struck me as being a little odd. On the floor of the Oregon House, he talked about the winter in Scotland, a professor at the University of Victoria, the Russian view of some British research. It was all a bit
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Eco Tourism In Nepal
Eco-tourism, also known as Sustainable Tourism or Responsible Tourism is the latest buzz in the tourism sector of entire world. Most of the nations, be it a developing or a developed country is quite efficiently using the term "Eco-tourism" to give an
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I can take the heat: UN climate chief
THE chief of the United Nations' climate change panel, Rajendra Pachauri, says he has not considered resigning over his recent drubbing in the media, but has vowed to make the UN's next assessment as good as is ''humanly possible''.
Dr Pachauri said
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Removing trade barriers can boost South Asia trade: World Bank
"The unique geography of South Asia-distance and density-has the potential to raise growth through increased trade," says the report "Promoting Economic Cooperation in South Asia". But "presently this is hindered by policy barriers."
"The benefits of
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Travel tips by Nancy Novogrod
Nancy
Novogrod, the editor-in-chief of Travel+Leisure magazine, lives in New York and
travels extensively every year. She spoke to Reuters about managing her travel.
How many
flights a year do you estimate you take each year? Which is your most
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Work underway to widen Manali-Leh highway
Manali, Feb. 20 (ANI): Work to widen one of the world's highest motorways is underway in Himachal Pradesh.
Set against the backdrop of the majestic Himalayas, the road links Manali in Himachal Pradesh to Leh in Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The
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Ashram gives girls housing, food, confidence
In the predawn fog of winter, a gong peals once and girls wrapped in shawls and head scarves emerge from their dormitories to attend Hindu prayers. A fire is lit as their young voices chant ancient Sanskrit verses.
Lying in the foothills of the
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Farming high in a Himalayan desert
Farming is possible only from April to August
With artificial glaciers, new greenhouses and more, a Himalayanregion is regaining food self-sufficiency, writes Surabhi Pudasaini.
Growing enough food is not easy in Ladakh, a desert region high in the
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Many Major Cities Sit on Shaky Ground
(The Washington Post) This story was written by Joel Achenbach Megacities are something new on the planet. Earthquakes are something very old. The two are a lethal combination, as seen in the recent tragedy in Port-au-Prince, where more than 200,0
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Al Gore's Nine Lies
The godfather of climate hysteria is in hiding as another of his wild claims unravels — this one about global warming causing seas to swallow us up.
We've not seen or heard much of the former vice president, Oscar winner and Nobel Prize recipient
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Tibetan Yoga workshop
Infinite Dimension Charitable Trust is conducting ‘Shathyu Bhava' (live a hundred years) – Ancient Himalayan-Tibetan Secrets of Health, Longevity and Youthfulness on February 28, 2010.
‘Shathyu Bhava' a powerful ancient yogic system of simple yet
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You Can Call Him Al ... But Al Won't Call You Back
Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. But in the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public face of global warming -- has been silent
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Rubin Museum Exhibiting Hindu Artifacts
Prestigious Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) in New
York (USA) is currently reportedly exhibiting various Hindu
artworks, including “The Churning of the
Ocean”.
Titled “Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky
Ocean to an Evolving Universe”, this exhibition till
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India cautioned of possible Hindu Kush rumble
Scientific publications have warned that very severe earthquakes are likely to occur anytime in the Himalayan region.
Killer quakes in Haiti or latest in Chile may appear at least half a way world away but a rumble as if on cue on Sunday in the Hindu
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Chile Vs. Haiti
Disaster: The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that ripped through Chile was as bad as they come. But unlike Haiti, which suffered a quake of its own six weeks ago, Chile's misfortune was confined to nature alone.
Chile's monster quake over the weekend tore
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Warmest Winter On Record?
If you think conservatives are freaking out over the growing prospects that health care reform will, in fact, happen, wait until you see the freakout over climate change.
If you think conservatives are freaking out over the growing prospects that
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Chandigarh is high on rainwater harvesting
In addition to its clean, wide roads and thick green cover, the Union Territory of Chandigarh can also boast of successfully running one of the biggest rainwater harvesting projects in the country.
The initiative, which was earlier only aimed at saving
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India Stampede Kills 63
Associated Press LUCKNOW, India—A senior local government official 63 people were killed in a stampede at a temple in north India. Ashok Kumar says dozens of people were also injured Thursday when thousands of people crowded into the compound of a
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63 die, dozens injured in Indian temple stampede
KUNDA, India
— A stampede among thousands of poor villagers scrambling for free food and clothes at a commemorative event killed 63 people at a Hindu temple in northern India and injured dozens of others.
Nearly all the victims were women and
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Climate change debate grows heated
Less than a month after CNN proclaimed "Last Decade Was Warmest Ever," a headline in Britain's Daily Mail shouted that a top climate scientist had taken a "U-turn" and now "Admits: There Has Been No Global Warming Since 1995."
Pity the poor reader,
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Pit wits against game fish in Himachal
Himachal Pradesh is organising a unique contest for anglers who wish to pit their wits against the golden mahseer - a game fish.
The state Fisheries Department, in association with the Himachal Angling Association, is organising a two-day angling
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Internet Bypasses Too Many, Warns Queen
In her annual Commonwealth Day message, she will say that telecommunications advances have the potential to transform the lives of millions.
However, she says that technologies which can reach locations as remote as the Himalayas and the International
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A Boho Bow
PARIS — Just when you thought it was time to say bye-bye to Boho, along comes a Kenzo show to make the most of hippie de luxe.
The brand is celebrating its 40th birthday in September, and the Italian designer Antonio Marras is doing a good job of
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Fishtail team in Swiss Alps
KATHMANDU, Mar 10: A four-member-delegation of Fishtail Air, led by its CEO Suman Pandey, is attending the observation training on alpine rescue operations in Switzerland. The training is supported by Air Zermatt, a Swiss Company which is known
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Tourists enjoy paragliding in Solang Nala
Adventure-lovers and sports enthusiasts are making a beeline to picturesque Solang Nala in Himachal Pradesh, for paragliding.
Flying over snowy peaks of Dhauladhar ranges of the Himalayas give tourists a thrilling experience.
There are more than
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Celestial Seasonings(R) Introduces First-Of-Its-Kind Kombucha Line
Drawing upon more than 40 years of tea expertise and commitment to innovation, Celestial Seasonings(R), a brand of The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:
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One big adventure
Enjoy the charms of a bustling city rich in cultural, religious and artistic treasures
Let’s get one thing straight, Kathmandu is not a city for the faint-hearted.
It is a sprawling, bustling hive of activity that assaults the senses with a barrage of
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Never stop fighting - cancer stricken Lisa Ray's motto
Actress Lisa Ray, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the plasma cells last year, isn't letting the disease affect her - she is determined to fight it and has sought spiritual solace near Ganga in Rishikesh.
"I'm back from
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Pink Everest: Nepal appeals for gay tourists
It wants gay honeymooners trekking through the Himalayas.
It wants to host the world's highest same-sex wedding at Everest base camp.
But mainly, the conservative Hindu nation wants a chunk of the multibillion dollar gay tourist market to help pull it
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Bangladesh Army chief visits Leh
Jammu, March 16 (IANS) Bangladesh Army chief General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen, who is the first army chief of an Islamic country to visit the strategically located Leh region of Jammu and Kashmir, interacted with senior Indian Army officers during his
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Outcry Over Grisly Deaths in Lab Monkeys
(AP) Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be
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Research monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown
SPARKS, NEV.: Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be
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19th-century industrial spy stole No. 1 drink
"For All the Tea in China" (Viking, 252 pages, $25.95), by Sarah Rose: The plot for Sarah Rose's "For All the Tea in China" seems tailor-made for a Hollywood thriller: An industrial spy hired by the world's largest multinational corporation steals
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Kullu locals protest against hydropower project for illegal placement of power wires
Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), Mar 20 (ANI): The Alian Duhangan hydropower project in Kullu faced the agitation of the locals of Hirni village for placing power lines over their houses and across fields without their consent.
But angry locals are alleging
