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Climate: When the ice melts

Deep in the Himalayas, the disappearance of glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan. Anjali Nayar trekked through the mountains to see how the country is adapting to a warming world.

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See Editorial, page 1027 , and online at http://www.nature.com/roadtocopenhagen a video at http://go.nature.com/VGGayN .

Anjali Nayar is an International Development Research Centre fellow at Nature.

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Nayar, A. Climate: When the ice melts. Nature 461, 1042–1046 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/4611042a

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