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Preserving Offerings, Prolonging Merit: Efficacy, Skillful Means, and Re-purposing in Plastic Buddhist Material Culture in Contemporary Sikkim

Worldwide Waste, 2023
Despite official bans, public criticism and concern over pollution, plastics are widely used in Buddhist material culture in the Indian Himalayan state of Sikkim.
Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa
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Epidemiological Profile and Outcome Predictors of Pediatric Scrub Typhus at a Tertiary Care Health Institution in the Sub-Himalayan Region [PDF]

Pediatric Infectious Disease, 2023
Background: Scrub typhus is an important differential cause of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in the pediatric age-group. Diagnosis of scrub typhus is made by evaluating a child's history of exposure, clinical spectrum, and results of serologic ...
Navendu Chaudhary, Mohit Bajaj, Milap Sharma, Swati Mahajan, Ankit Chaudhary   +4 more
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The Himalayas [PDF]

The Geographical Journal, 1911
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C., M., Broadfoot, W., Bruce, C. G., Workman, William Hunter, Workman, Fanny Bullock   +4 more
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Acceleration of ice loss across the Himalayas over the past 40 years

Science Advances, 2019
Glacier ice loss rates across the Himalayas have doubled over the past four decades, consistent with regional atmospheric warming. Himalayan glaciers supply meltwater to densely populated catchments in South Asia, and regional observations of glacier ...
J. Maurer, J. Maurer, J. Schaefer, J. Schaefer, S. Rupper, A. Corley   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variations in surface ozone at Nainital : a high-altitude site in the central Himalayas [PDF]

, 2010
Surface ozone measurements have been made for the first time at Nainital (29.37 degrees N, 79.45 degrees E, 1958 m amsl), a high-altitude site in the central Himalayas, between October 2006 and December 2008.
Kumar, Rajesh, Wild, O., Rajesh Kumar, Naja, Manish, Venkataramani, S., Manish Naja, S. Venkataramani, O. Wild   +7 more
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Climate Change Over the Himalayas

Assessment of Climate Change over the Indian Region, 2020
Ramesh Vellore, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM-MoES), Pune, India P. Priya, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM-MoES), Pune, India H. P. Borgaonkar, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM-MoES), Pune, India Bhupendra B.
T. P. Sabin, R. Krishnan, R. Vellore, P. Priya, H. Borgaonkar, B. Singh, Aswin Sagar   +6 more
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Glacio-environmental aspects recorded in two shallow ice cores drilled in 1980 at accumulation area of Khumbu Glacier of Mt. Everest in Nepal Himalayas

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020
The physical and geochemical characteristics of shallow ice cores drilled in the accumulation area (Western Cwm) of Khumbu Glacier in the Nepal Himalayas in 1980 were analyzed.
Nozomu Takeuchi, Yoichiro Hori, Noboru Furukawa, Minoru Yoshida, Yoshiyuki Fujii   +4 more
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IoT-Based Geotechnical Monitoring of Unstable Slopes for Landslide Early Warning in the Darjeeling Himalayas

Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2020
In hilly areas across the world, landslides have been an increasing menace, causing loss of lives and properties. The damages instigated by landslides in the recent past call for attention from authorities for disaster risk reduction measures ...
M. T. Abraham, Neelima Satyam, B. Pradhan, A. Alamri   +3 more
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Phylogeographic analyses of an epiphytic foliose lichen show multiple dispersal events westward from the Hengduan Mountains of Yunnan into the Himalayas. [PDF]

, 2022
Lobaria pindarensis is an endemic species of the Himalayas and the Hengduan Mountains. Little information is available on the phylogeography genetics and colonization history of this species or how its distribution patterns changed in response to the ...
Yang, Mei‐Xia, Wang, Li Song, Wang, Li‐Song, Yang, Mei-Xia, Silke Werth, Christoph Scheidegger, Wang, Li-Song, Mei‐Xia Yang, Scheidegger, Christoph, Yang, Mei Xia, Werth, Silke, Li‐Song Wang   +11 more
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Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan

Ecology and Society, 2023
Attention to environmental caretaking practices of Indigenous, traditional, and rural societies is an important strategy for Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, as well as for greater ecological sustainability and resilience.
Elizabeth Allison
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