High-frequency atmospheric measurements of methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) from Darjeeling, India are presented from December 2011 (CH4)/March 2012 (N2O and SF6) through February 2013. These measurements were made on a gas chromatograph equipped with a flame ionization detector and electron capture detector, and were calibrated on the Tohoku University, the Scri...

The transition from a response-based paradigm to an anticipative, prevention-based approach remains stubborn challenge in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Whilst the United Nations Office for (UNDRR) has advocated latter since International Decade Natural 1990s, many countries have been slow move response-focused preventative one. policy guidelines successfully informed national DRR policies vari...

During the past few months there have been in the Darjeeling District small localised epidemics of fever, the diagnosis of which has presented some difficulty; some of these epidemics have presented a very high mortality. On Sept. 20th, 1912, Dr. Baldwin Seal, of Darjeeling, asked me to accompany him to Takvar Tea Garden, to see some coolies who were ill. On arrival there I obtained the followi...

to remain as a permanent charge. Why, no one that I have asked about it can tell. It is obviously so unjust to the incumbents of the other six hill stations (some of them far inferior to Darjeeling) that they should be turned out, and the civil surgeon there allowed to retain the appointment permanently, that, I feel sure, the matter has only to be brought to the notice of the Viceroy by the In...

Profiles of aerosols and cloud layers have been investigated over a high-altitude urban atmosphere in the eastern Himalayas India, for first time, using Raman LIDAR. The study was conducted post-monsoon season Darjeeling (latitude 27°01′ N longitude 88°36′ E, 2200 masl), tourist destination north-eastern India. In addition to characterization atmospheric boundary layer detection, profile water ...

I n terms of biological diversity, the Himalayan region is one of the world’s richest ecosystems (Pei and Sharma 1998) and has been identified as a “biodiversity hotspot.” Although Nepal constitutes only about 0.09% of the world’s land area, it harbors a remarkable number of faunal species: 4.5% of all mammals, 9.5% of birds, 1.2% of amphibians, 2.03% of reptiles and 6.8% of butterflies and mot...