Himalayas News

Himalayas News.

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  The Highs and Lows of Climate Activism

  By Katherine Gustafson | Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:05 PM ET

  of Nepal is going to new heights — literally — in its quest to alert the world that climate change is causing alarming glacial melt in the Himalayas. The country's cabinet announced plans to hold a meeting on Mount Everest to make its point, according to the Associated Press.The member Read More

  More like this in: Climate change, Global Warming, Water, Associated Press, The Associated Press, Ocean, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nepal, Lakes, Glaciers, Tibet
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  Women and Children Aid Indian Water Contamination Study

  By David Bois | Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:56 PM ET

  and their own families." The arsenic is naturally occurring, and is believed to stem from the mineral chemistry of rock formations in the Himalayas which become physically and chemically mobilized over time, creating sediments eventually brought to lower lying areas by the Ganges an Read More

  More like this in: Health, Children, India, Drinking Water, World Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, EurekAlert, Water Quality, Kansas State University
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  The Brief 8/11: Himalayan Life, Mad Cool Women, Roller Rescue

  By Caroline Walker | Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:05 AM ET

  thriving in the Himalayas. Good news for busy lives, condensed here on the Brief.You go, girls. The women behind television sensation "Mad Men."The Himalayas proving to be a gold mine of new species! Life, life and more life about in raw nature.A natural disaster may be far from good news, bu Read More

  More like this in: Twitter, Television, Military, Taiwan, Natural Disasters
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  Go Go Goji Berries

  By Jac Chebatoris | Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:00 AM ET

  -- there are a lot of products which claim they will make you a goji goddess to choose from.Check out the list here.Photo courtesy Gar Read More

  More like this in: New York, New York City, Los Angeles, Celebrities, Beauty, Green Tea, Cocoa, Antioxidants
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  Flip Your Lid

  By Rachel Felder | Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:25 AM ET

  day-to-day business. And many of its core products include ingredients -- like yuan zhi root, which is grown in China, and wild indigo from the Himalayas -- sourced from regions that rely on the company's orders to help create jobs in rural communities. The new line of Molton Brow Read More

  More like this in: Business, Recycling, China, Emissions, Carbon Emissions, Garbage, Life & Style