Indian, Chinese Team to Map Glacier Melt

People ride on country boats through the floodwaters to catch a ferry along the river Brahmaputra in Nimatighat, about 322 kilometers (201 miles) east of Gauhati, India, in this June 2, 2006, file photo. A joint Indian-Chinese expedition will chart the remote Himalayan glaciers that scientists fear are rapidly being melted by global warming, threatening the great rivers that flow down from them giving life to India's vast Gangetic Plain, officials said Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)