<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Himalayas: News &amp; Videos about Himalayas - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Himalayas</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Himalayas from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:50:53 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Himalayas: News &amp; Videos about Himalayas - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/TECH/science/10/05/himalayas.glacier.conflict/tztop.hima.jpg</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Himalayas</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Himalayas from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>The high stakes of melting Himalayan glaciers</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/05/himalayas.glacier.conflict/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/05/himalayas.glacier.conflict/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding quicker than those in other parts of the world and could disappear altogether by 2035 according to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eastern Himalayas reveals abundance of new species</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/11/eco.himalayas.newspecies/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/11/eco.himalayas.newspecies/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Over 350 new species including the world's smallest deer, a "flying frog" and a 100 million-year old gecko have been discovered in the Eastern Himalayas, a biological treasure trove now threatened by climate change.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Surmounting climate change in the Himalayas</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/25/eco.everest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/25/eco.everest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Dawa Steven Sherpa is leader of Eco Everest Expeditions, aiming to educate climbers about their impact on the Himalayas and highlight the affects of climate change on the region.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 04:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>25 dead in 5 days of battles in Kashmir</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/24/kashmir.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/24/kashmir.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Five days of gunbattles between the Indian army and separatist militants in Indian-administered Kashmir have left at least 25 dead -- eight Indian army troopers, including one officer, and 17 militants, the Indian military said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Engineer: We can use food waste to generate electricity</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/11/biogas.nature/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/07/11/biogas.nature/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The apocalyptic tales of nature's impending demise are as well worn as they are numerous.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Kashmir lockdown targets separatist rally</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/07/kashmir.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/07/kashmir.police/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of police and paramilitary troops enforced tight security in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday to prevent separatists from staging a rally amid renewed violence in the divided Himalayan region.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:11:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Explainer: What is polyandry?</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/polyandry.investigation.sidner/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/24/polyandry.investigation.sidner/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Polyandry is a form of polygamy where a woman is married to two or more husbands at the same time.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kashmir Shuts Down in Prime Minister Protest</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1849425,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1849425,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister</description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Curfew tightened in violence-hit Kashmir</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/kashmir.curfew/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/06/kashmir.curfew/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Indian security forces sealed off Srinagar's center Monday to thwart a rally by separatists and tighten a round-the-clock curfew now in its second day in the violence-torn Himalayan region.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Kashmir placed under indefinite curfew</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/kashmir.curfew.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/kashmir.curfew.protest/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Indian authorities in Kashmir placed the Himalayan region in an around-the-clock indefinite curfew early Sunday to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Indians arrest Kashmir separatists</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/25/kashmir.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/25/kashmir.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Indian authorities in Kashmir arrested more than a dozen pro-separatist leaders and placed the divided Himalayan region in an around-the-clock curfew to scuttle a planned pro-independence rally Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Beauty and the trash in India</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/14/beauty.and.the.trash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/14/beauty.and.the.trash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Walking through the streets of Hubli, there are a few sights and sounds that one will notice immediately upon entering the city limits: auto-rickshaw horns, bright red dirt and trash.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Funerals Start After India Stampede</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829351,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829351,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Mukesh Chabba lit the funeral pyre on which seven of his relatives -- including his wife and daughter -- were cremated Monday, the day after a stampede at a remote mountaintop Hindu temple killed 145 people</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quotes of the day: Grimsson</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/29/grimsson.doha/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/05/29/grimsson.doha/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson opened the Doha debate by naming energy as the most fundamental question of the 21st Century.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>China Races to Save Quake Victims</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1770925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1770925,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A massive rescue effort is under way to free tens of thousands of people believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>When the Maoists Take Over Nepal
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1731248,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1731248,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The U.S. still labels the party a terrorist group, but the election is likely to make its leader the ex-monarchy's new President</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tibet protesters claim death toll now 140 </title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/25/tibet.arson/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/25/tibet.arson/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tibet's exile government said the death toll from protests in the Himalayan region over the past two weeks has reached about 140, but Chinese government restrictions have made it difficult confirm the number killed.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Royalists sweep landmark Bhutan vote</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/24/bhutan.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/24/bhutan.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Voters in the secluded Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan became the world's newest democracy Monday when the nation held its first elections and ended more than 100 years of royal rule.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Blasts rip through Bhutan</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/21/bhutan.blasts/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/21/bhutan.blasts/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A series of four blasts ripped through the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan Sunday, injuring one person.</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sir Edmund Hillary: Top of the World
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1702543,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1702543,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Remembering the man who, with Tenzing Norgay, achieved one of the century's greatest feats: conquering Mt. Everest</description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>16 dead after bridge collapse</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/26/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Authorities in a remote region of Nepal searched downstream up to 20 miles (30 km) for bodies Wednesday, one day after a suspension bridge collapsed, sending hundreds of Hindu festivalgoers into the water below.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bridge-collapse rescuers battle darkness, current, isolation</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/12/25/nepal.bridge/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rescuers were searching through the night Tuesday for hundreds of people who fell into a river after a footbridge collapsed during a religious festival in Nepal.</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:47:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Review: 'Bucket List' should have stayed in drawer</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/24/review.bucket/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/24/review.bucket/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>"The Bucket List," director Rob Reiner's latest, suggests dying could be the best thing that ever happens to you -- just so long as you find a lonely billionaire lying in the next bed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bhutanese refugees clash with Nepal police</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/28/nepal.refugees/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/28/nepal.refugees/index.html</guid><description>For a second day, refugees from the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan clashed with Nepalese police on Monday near a refugee camp in eastern Nepal, according to the United Nations and local police.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 03:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bhutan battles lure of TV</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/14/bhutan.cable/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/14/bhutan.cable/index.html</guid><description>Since cable television first arrived in her tiny village in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan two years ago, 55-year-old Kencho Om keeps getting in trouble with her husband for staying up late watching movies.</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 13:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Things I wish for you in '07</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397981/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/01/22/8397981/index.htm</guid><description>May your train always arrive on time in the morning, and may you always be in the proper car to get ahead of the foot traffic on your way to the office. 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constitution under which the king is no longer the nation's head of state.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 04:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepal, rebels sign peace accord</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/nepal.accord/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/21/nepal.accord/index.html</guid><description>Nepal's government and Maoist rebels have signed a peace accord, ending 10 years of fighting and beginning what is hoped to be an era of peaceful politics in the Himalayan kingdom.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:30:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A year after quake, a town and its people in limbo</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/balakot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/balakot/index.html</guid><description>Fazl Rehman thought nothing could shock him after last year's earthquake, until seismologists said that his hometown of Balakot was built on a fault line.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 die in 22-hour police standoff</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/kashmir.violence/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/05/kashmir.violence/index.html</guid><description>A 22-hour standoff between Indian security forces and a group of heavily-armed militants ended Thursday morning, leaving a total of seven police officers, one civilian and two militants dead, police said.</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Nepalese Parliament reopens after 4 years</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/nepal.parliament/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/nepal.parliament/index.html</guid><description>Nepalese politicians have returned to Parliament for the first time in four years following weeks of bloody protests and political turmoil that eventually forced the king to 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