Xinhuanet: Chinese scientists have pinpointed the sources of four major rivers that flow through China and south Asia, and measured their lengths and size of drainage basins, information that will prove to be invaluable for future environmental research. The information about the Brahmaputra, Indus, Salween and Irrawaddy rivers was a result of expeditions and satellite

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NepalTimes: Unique cooperative puts a price tag on protecting the ecosystem. It is 6:30am, and the small crowd that has gathered on the shore of Rupa Lake is getting impatient. Suddenly, someone shouts: “There they are.” Canoes appear one by one from behind a forested mountainside that plunges into the mirror-like lake. They row closer

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