NYT summary of 24 October 2009 350 Day: "[for] an international climate accord:a synchronized burst of more than 4,300 demonstrations, from the Himalayas to the Great Barrier Reef, all centered on the number 350."

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Daniel Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey ecologist who works at Montana's Glacier National Park, says the park's namesakes will be gone about ten years ahead of schedule, endangering the region's plants and animals.

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CHANDESHWORI (Nepal) - WHEN Frenchman Francois Driard decided to settle in Nepal after a decade-long love affair with the Himalayan nation, just one thing was missing - good cheese. So the 31-year-old former business writer decided to make his own.

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Nepal bans trekkers from Everest Base Camp

NEPAL, Namche Bazaar - After banning journalists from reporting on the Chinese Olympic Torch relay to the summit of Mount Everest from the Nepalese side of the border, the Nepalese authorities have now also banned trekkers from visiting the popular Everest Base Camp, situated on  …

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The Brazilian Girls at Central Park Summerstage

I've never been one to frequent Central Park and so at first it was a bit of a trial to make my way to the performance area where New York electronic rockers Brazilian Girls were set to perform as part of this year's Summerstage concert series.

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And, in the other remaining Himalayan kingdom, a shift to democracy begins on quite another foot.

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The Gangotri glacier is shrinking — faster than ever before, faster every year.

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..you should know that this idylilc, Himalayan kingdom has state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of the Lhotsampas (south Bhutanese of Nepali origin) for the past 16 years, most of whom languish in refugee camps across the border...aided and abetted by India.

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Which insurgents I wonder...Maoists, or Muslims?

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I didn't want to marginalize this by putting it under "Religion."

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Nepal's other refugees, the Bhutanese, languish for 16 years idue to a little-known ethnic cleansing campaign from Mr "Gross National Happiness," King Jigme of Bhutan.

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