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Risk of flash flood and landslide in Nepal
Scientists warn that earthquakes and aftershocks in Nepal could lead to thousands of landslides, melting glacial lakes, leading to flooding in the near future.
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Environment
Found 100 snow-covered corpses buried in Nepal
Police and Nepalese volunteers found the body of about 100 pedestrians and villagers buried in an earthquake avalanche last month, and are digging in snow and ice to fin…
Environment
The waste of visitors pollutes the 'Roof of the world'
With more than 700 visitors and guides conquering Mount Everest each year, their waste is polluting and becoming a health threat.
Environment
The source of unrest among tectonic plates
Earth began the process of regenerating surface crust about 3 billion years ago, launching terrible clashes between tectonic plates like today. A new shell is continuall…
Environment
Can't conquer Everest due to ... out of snow?
Who ever conquered Everest 21 times, Asa Sherpa said he might not be able to climb the highest mountain in the world anymore.
Environment
Nepal calls for help measuring Everest height
Nepal is urging investors around the world to help them with a sum of money to accurately measure the height of Everest, in order to resolve the prolonged dispute around…
Environment
The mystery of the rise of the Himalayas
According to a new hypothesis, the speed of collisions between tectonic plates on the earth is slowing, creating a great repulsive force affecting the altitudes of the H…
Environment
Calling to build toilets on the roof of the world
An environmental protection organization asked the Nepalese government to build toilets on Mount Everest to prevent pollution.
Environment
Clean up the 'dead zone' on the roof of the world
20 Nepalese mountain climbers will climb Mount Everest this week to clean up the pile of garbage that existed for several decades where it is considered
Environment
Why are the highest mountains in the world near the equator?
Is it random or not when all the highest mountains in the world are located close to the equator?
Environment
'Roof of the world' used to be in the middle of the sea
About 50 million years ago, Everest and hundreds of other peaks in the Himalayas used to be islands.
Environment
Clearing garbage on Mount Everest
Ken Noguchi, a Japanese mountain climber, and seven-year volunteers have spared a total of 8 tons of garbage to Mount Everest, returning cleanliness to the roof of the w…
Environment
Turn garbage on the 'world roof' into treasure
While thousands of adventurous people flock to Mount Everest by challenging the climb of the 'roof of the world', Jeff Clapp is l & oc
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The magic beauty of 'the roof of the world'
Mount Everest brings magical beauty in the lens of photographers.