More than 300 Nepalis, including 100 climbers, protested in Copenhagen to bring international attention to the effects of climate change on the Himalayas, reports. “It didn鈥檛 snow at all during December, January,聽 and February, when itshould snow heavily, and it finally snowed massively in May, when it鈥檚usually dry,” said mountaineer Apa Sherpa in a statement. “Our agriculture, our tourism, our livelihoods–it is alldependent on the Himalayas,” says Manjeet Dhakal of the Nepali delegation to the . The predicts that the central and easternglaciers of the Himalayas could melt by 2035.
–Aileen Torres