The forests of the central Bhutan mountains consist of Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests in higher elevations and Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests in lower elevations.

Communities in the Himalayan region have historically been closely integrated.

So I quit my degree, I headed off to the Himalayas, I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

As I spent my week up in the Himalayas, I started to imagine what I call an emotional equation.

Approximately 2.4 billion people live in the drainage basin of the Himalayan rivers.

The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.

Millions have been displaced and or are shelterless, even as the cruel Himalayan winter descends over the region.

Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, the park combines high species diversity and visibility.

Poles made significant achievements in mountaineering, in particular, in the Himalayas and the winter ascending of the eight thousanders.

Melting glaciers in the Himalayas could potentially lead to water shortages for hundreds of millions of people.

The Himalayas. The flat horizon that we've evolved with has been a metaphor for the infinite unbounded resources and unlimited capacity for disposal of waste.

It breeds in mountains from Afghanistan through the Himalayas and southern Tibet to western China, and winters in the plains of South Asia.

A minimum of 20 to 40 inches of increase in seas, coupled with increasing flows from the Himalayas. And take a look at this.

So, just yesterday, I flew in here from Singapore, and before that, I was spending two weeks in Bhutan, the small Himalayan kingdom nestled between Tibet and India.

On 9 November 2000, this 27th state of the Republic of India was created from the Himalayan and adjoining northwestern districts of Uttar Pradesh.

Indian defense officials have reported a rising number of Chinese military incursions across the 4,057 kilometer Himalayan border.

But, with Tibet locked behind an iron curtain since the 1951 Chinese annexation, the economies and cultures of the entire Himalayan region have weakened.

The northern region of the country consists of an arc of Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows reaching up to glaciated mountain peaks with an extremely cold climate at the highest elevations.

Meanwhile, the People s Republic continues to nibble furtively at territory across the long, disputed Himalayan border with India.

Nowhere are consequences of this struggle clearer than in the Himalayan foothills of the southwestern province of Yunnan.

It is also why there exists an organic connection of India to Central Asia, the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India China rivalry is currently focused.

Distribution Chanterelles are common in northern parts of Europe, North America, including Mexico, in Asia including the Himalayas, and in Africa including Zambia.

NAIROBI The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear.

He was abbot of Samye, one of Tibet's most important monasteries and the first Buddhist monastery established in the Himalaya, but spent most of his life travelling or in retreat.

NEW YORK I have just returned from Bhutan, the Himalayan kingdom of unmatched natural beauty, cultural richness, and inspiring self reflection.

With both the Karmapas in India, the Indian government has sought to maintain peace by barring the contenders from the sacred Rumtek monastery in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim.

Indian defense officials have reported a sharp increase in Chinese military incursions across the disputed 4,057 kilometer Himalayan frontier and in aggressive patrolling.

And since we always refer to the project as The Mountain, we commissioned this Japanese Himalaya photographer to give us this beautiful photo of Mount Everest, making the entire building a 3,000 square meter artwork.

The personal charm of the Dalai Lama, combined with the Himalayan air of superior spiritual wisdom, has promoted a caricature of a mystical, wise, and peace loving people being crushed by a brutal empire.

Such statements reflect a considerable change from the hostility that bedeviled Indian Chinese relations following the two countries 1962 war over a disputed border in the Himalayas.

You know, there's a small country nestled in the Himalayan Mountains, far from these beautiful mountains, where the people of the Kingdom of Bhutan have decided to do something different, which is to measure their gross national happiness rather than their gross national product.

PRINCETON The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting gross national happiness instead of economic growth.

Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.

The film's shooting started on 20 March 2007 in Chandigarh, Punjab and later headed to Shimla and Manali, Himachal Pradesh, where the crew filmed a song on the Himalayas and the Rohtang Pass.

Its 2007 report represents the best possible risk assessment available, notwithstanding an error or, more precisely, a typographical error in its statement of Himalayan glacial melt rates.

Complicating matters further are geographical and climactic disparities among constituencies. The Himalayan highlands, for example, will remain snowbound until May, by which time monsoon rains will have begun to sweep southern and northeastern India.

I captured this live from my laptop in a cafe called Earth Matters on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I live, and it was done as a collaborative project with the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art for an exhibit on comparative cosmology.

The biggest headlines about IPCC errors concern a claim about melting Himalayan glaciers that it made in its 2007 report on the likely impacts of climate change. Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world, the report noted, adding that if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high.

Indeed, some look with envy across the Himalayas at India s giant neighbor, China, which, untroubled by the vagaries of democratic politics, is in the process of stage managing a long planned leadership change completely from above.

Closer to home, a Himalayan railway project to link Tibet to Khasa, at the border with Nepal, is currently under construction, with plans to extend the line all the way to Kathmandu, the Nepalese capital.

When the Indian government suggested last year that the Himalayan glaciers were in better shape than the IPCC claimed, the IPCC s chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, dismissed India s objections as being based on voodoo science.

Moreover, the Chinese desire to divert the Brahmaputra by employing peaceful nuclear explosions to build an underground tunnel through the Himalayas found expression in the international negotiations in Geneva in the mid 1990s on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Although established as a unitary Hindu kingdom, with politics directed from the Himalayan foothills, today around half the population live in the fertile southern plains and more than one third are from over 50 indigenous, largely non Hindu communities.

Indigenous plant life is affected by introduced animals such as red deer (Cervus elaphus), chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra), and Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) all of which have at times been targeted for culling, while the birds and reptiles are vulnerable to introduced predators.

In fact, the Chinese appointed Karmapa Lama has a doppelgänger Karmapa, who has set up shop in New Delhi. With both the Karmapas in India, the Indian government has sought to maintain peace by barring the contenders from the sacred Rumtek monastery in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim.