On 2 May 2023, Pauline Stensgar, of Keller, Washington State, died at the age of 96. Her language died with…
The famous pilgrimage site of Kedarnath, located in the central Himalayas of India, is believed to be a sacred land.…
This June, monsoon rains wreaked havoc in Nepal’s hilly regions, but the country’s southern lowlands were instead reeling from a…
Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. In some areas, escalating temperatures are increasing the frequency and likelihood of wildfires and drought.…
The dangerous wildfires burning across the world show us how real the climate crisis has become. When we see these…
By 1900, the internal combustion engine was hailed as a way to clean up the world’s city streets, then heaped…
For more than 2,000 years, Hinduism, Buddhism and the shamanic Himalayan religion of Bon have venerated Shaligrams – ancient fossils…
Last week, United Nations General Secretary António Guterres coined an arresting new term. The era of global warming has ended,…
The Kedarnath Valley, located above 3,500 metres in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, has changed significantly since it was…
The Asian region was battered by extreme events driven by climate change, with flooding emerging as a particularly frequent and…
Deadly heatwaves, raging wildfires and record global temperatures are upon us. But far from the flames, at the southernmost tip…
In June 2023, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced Monica P. Medina as its new President and CEO. Medina is…
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours, it’s hard to ignore that something unusual is going on with the…
Rising population and demand for food, feed, fiber and fuel are increasing competition for land. For example, new WRI research projects that…
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said…
The April heat wave in South and Southeast Asia this year was detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities, noted a…
When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s…
As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures…
New research shows that India’s tiger conservation policy has not only helped in preserving and increasing tiger populations, but it…
When 1000 kilometres of mangrove tidal wetland vegetation, along the shoreline of Australia’s remote Gulf of Carpentaria, died en masse…
The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate…
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through…
India’s monsoon was delayed by three weeks this year. This meant far lower rainfall across the subcontinent in early June…
Environmental activists have raised concerns about the government’s Tawi riverfront development project in Jammu and Kashmir stating that it poses…
Between 15 and 22 June this year, more than 150 people died in two hospitals in Ballia and Deoria districts,…
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