Tanti and Dobhal are the only two Indians on the list from our UK(uttarakhand)

Domestic wind power firm Suzlon Energy chief Tulsi Tanti, along with Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology's D P Dobhal, have made to a list of global environment champions prepared by the Time magazine.

Tanti and Dobhal are the only two Indians on the list, which includes other prominent names like Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Vice-President Al Gore, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prince Charles of Wales and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The magazine has described Dobhal as the one scaling "the shrinking glaciers of the Himalayas to track the globe's warming in real time."

Dobhal, a glaciologist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology which studies the Himalayan glaciers, makes use of bamboo sticks to measure the rise and fall of glacial mass. "Because I am a government servant, whatever I do I'm doing it for my country... Glaciers are the best indicator we have," he is quoted by the magazine. His work is all the more important since Himalayan glaciers have been studied by less scientists compared to that of glaciers in Alps, the Rockies and the Arctic, points out the report

To send your congratulations you can email him on dpdobhal@rediffmail .com

http://www.time. com/time/ specials/ 2007/article/ 0,28804,1663317_ 1663323_1669903, 00.html

http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/Tanti_ Dobhal_are_ Times_Heroes_ of_Environment/ articleshow/ 2480687.cms

http://www.hindusta ntimes.com/ storypage/ storypage. aspx?id=ca68663a -001d-407c- b142-f9b2eb7b6a2 1&&Headline=Indians+ on+Time's+ global+Heroes+ of+Environment+ list

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