[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Himalayan melting risk surveyed

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Two years ago Unep and the Kathmandu-based International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development found that 20 glacial lakes in Nepal and 24 in Bhutan were filling up so rapidly that their walls could breach by 2009. 



** Himalayan melting risk surveyed **
A new weather station is expected to show the extent of melting from global warming in the Himalayas
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4762576.stm >


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