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Global Encounters, Local Places: Connected Histories of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and the Himalayas—An Introduction

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
Darjeeling and Kalimpong, British imperial towns in the eastern Himalayan borderlands at the juncture of Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Sikkim, and Tibet, played a vital yet under-studied role as transcultural hubs of a hybrid modernity.
Tina Harris, Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa, Jayeeta Sharma, Markus Viehbeck   +3 more
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More Inspired, Less Anxious: Well‐Being Impacts of a Self‐Directed Art Museum Visit

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increasingly, art museums are seen as places that can support human flourishing. We describe a quasi‐experimental investigation of the impacts of a self‐directed art museum visit on adults' subjective well‐being. Data were collected from 363 adults at three art museums in Seattle, WA.
Jessica J. Luke, Kami Lee Chesnut, Ash Gingery, Yanyue Guan, Shizheng Miao, Emily Shields, Lucas Terry, Marcela Velandia‐Pirazan, Allison Bramblett, Jamie Fontana, Makayla Fry, McKenna Johnson, Erika Krause, Lauren Krieger, Wilson Lam, Mariel Lees, Marley Salgado Smith, Polly Yorioka, Michael Zamudio   +18 more
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Climate Change in the Himalayas: Current State of Knowledge [PDF]

, 2013
This paper reviews the literature on the potential biophysical and economic impacts of climate change in the Himalayas. Existing observations indicate that the temperature is rising at a higher rate in Nepal and Chinese regions of the Himalayas compared ...
Gautam, Mahesh R., Timilsina, Govinda R., Acharya, Kumud   +2 more
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Alarming trends: rapidly growing and recently formed glacial lakes in the Alaknanda Basin, northern Indian Himalayas

Open Geosciences
Glaciers are retreating worldwide in response to global warming. Glacier retreat can expose over-deepened basins formed by subglacial erosion (e.g., abrasion, quarrying), which may fill with meltwater to form proglacial lakes.
Pandey Aayushi
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Local Agency in Global Movements: Negotiating Forms of Buddhist Cosmopolitanism in the Young Men’s Buddhist Associations of Darjeeling and Kalimpong

The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2016
The Young Men’s Buddhist Association (YMBA), founded in Ceylon in 1898, was one of many Buddhist socio-cultural organisations established between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that imagined Buddhism as a global religion, compatible ...
Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia
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Trans‐oceanic migration and wind utilization by Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis)

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The Amur Falcon Falco amurensis performs one of the world's longest raptor migrations, involving a non‐stop crossing of the Indian Ocean of approximately 2800 km. While the existence of this route is known, the mechanistic details of wind exploitation and seasonal navigation remain to be fully elucidated.
Bernd‐Ulrich Meyburg, Rina Pretorius, Daniel Holte, Photos by B.‐U. Meyburg   +3 more
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29E.12 STS1-12-350 Himalayas

This image reflects a view of the Himalayas as seem from outer ...

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Seasonal and Spatial Patterns of Habitat Use by Royle’s Pika (Ochotona roylei) in Jagran Forest Range of District Neelum, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Kashmir Journal of Science, 2023
Royle's pika (Ochotona roylei) is an important species in the Himalayas. Understanding the relationships between this species and its environment is essential for its sustainable management.
Ghulam Ali, Nasra Ashraf, Shahida Rasheed, Saba Khalid, Rukhsana Khatoon, Nuzhat Shafi, Nousheen Irshad, Sidra Qayoom   +7 more
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A global perspective on the annual cycles of whimbrels

Ibis, EarlyView.
Comparative analyses are central to understanding broad‐scale patterns in avian ecology, yet their application is often constrained by fragmented and uneven data availability. Recent advances in tracking technology have generated unprecedented insights into shorebird movements, resulting in numerous studies on single populations or flyways.
Camilo Carneiro, Tómas G. Gunnarsson, Gary Allport, Philip W. Atkinson, Anne N. M. A. Ausems, Pierrick Bocher, Roeland Bom, Malo Braquier, Stephen C. Brown, Sayam U. Chowdhury, Paula Cimprich, Delip K. Das, Charlotte Francesiaz, Robert E. Gill, Diana J. Hamilton, Maina C. Handmaker, Shariful Islam, Audrey Jaeger, Frédéric Jiguet, Chrystyn Jones, Emmanuel Joyeux, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Alan H. Kneidel, Fenliang Kuang, Chris Latty, Mathieu Le Corre, David Li, Rebeca C. Linhart, Ádám Lovas‐Kiss, Zhijun Ma, Scott McWilliams, Verónica Méndez, Jason Mobley, Samuel NG, Joshua Nightingale, Erica Nol, Julie Paquet, Theunis Piersma, Marie Pitts, Rivo Rabarisoa, Florinah Razafimandimby, Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Felicia Sanders, Shiloh Schulte, Philipp Schwemmer, Nathan R. Senner, Böðvar Þórisson, Lee Tibbitts, Nils Warnock, Bryan Watts, Brad Winn, Samantha J. Wolfe, Shufen Yang, José A. Alves   +53 more
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Politics and religions in the Himalayas and Central Asia

, 2011
The European Society for Studies of Central Asia and Himalayan Regions (SEECHAC) held its 2011 International Colloquium in Rome, at the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’, on the 10th and 11th of October 2011.
Nicolas Sihlé
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