An old-fashioned George Washington joke from the Charlottesville (Virginia) Chronicle, 25 May 1883: âWhen did George Washington die?â asked a teacher of a large boy. âIs he dead?â was the astonished reply.
Natural Resources. The Himalayas are a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and a repository of the most amazing biodiversity and a wealth of other resources that provide succor to humans that live in the region as well as at the base of the high mountains.atural Resources. The Himalayas are a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot and a repository of the most amazing biodiversity and a wealth of other resources that provide succor to humans that live in the region as well as at the base of the high mountains.
A report by the UN Environment Program this year claimed that the cause of melting glaciers in the Himalayas was not global warming but the local warming effect of a vast atmospheric brown cloud over that region, made up of soot particles from Asia's dramatically increased burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.