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  • Fire on ice
    January 31 2010 | By Rashme Sehgal

    Dr R.K. Pachauri has never been afraid to face a knock-out punch. “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen,” is his dictum. He certainly is facing many more hard-hitting punches than he had anticipated when he was first elected chairman of the IPCC in 2002.

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  • ‘Date wrong, science credible’
    January 31 2010 | By Sunita Narain

    Sunita Narain director Centre of Science and Environment says that her past battles with IPCC chief R. K

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  • A controversy that won’t melt
    January 31 2010 | By Our Correspondent

    Glaciers are known to be nature’s barometers. They help decipher changes in the climate which the earth has undergone in the past

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  • Don't undermine IPCC study: Oz co-author
    January 25 2010

    An Australian professor, who co-authored the climate report that wrongly claimed Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, said the discovery of the error does not undermine the science but added the charge that Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief Rajendra Pachauri may have have benefited by receiving funds for his institute "looks extremely bad".

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  • BASIC supports IPCC despite Himalayan blunder
    January 24 2010

    Environment ministers of Brazil, South Africa, India, China (BASIC countries) on Sunday came out in support of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) despite its blunder in saying Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035.

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  • Smoking dragon, striding Lama
    November 08 2009 | By Manoj Anand

    Every house is being scrubbed clean and decorated to welcome the Dalai Lama here on Sunday, in what is turning out to be a historic visit to this famous monastery

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