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Environment correspondent, BBC World Service
Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes across the Himalayas - including the Everest region.
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BBC Science Correspondent
A new study ranks the importance and vulnerability of high-mountain stores of water.
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Video reveals last moments of Himalayan climbers
Indian authorities have released a video showing the final moments of a team of climbers whose bodies were recovered in the Himalayas.
The clip shows four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian slowly making their way up an unnamed peak in sunny weather, officials said.
The group was attempting to climb India's second-highest peak Nanda Devi when contact was lost on 26 May.
Seven bodies have been recovered, but Tyneside-born Martin Moran's remains have not yet been found.

Indian officials release the last video filmed by eight climbers who died in the Himalayas.
The clip of eight climbers making their way up a peak is being used to help analyse what went wrong.
Read moreSoutik Biswas
India correspondent
The eight mountaineers had been attempting to climb India's second-highest peak, Nanda Devi.
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Science Correspondent, BBC News
The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled over the last 40 years, scientists say.
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