A team of researchers from India and Japan have found water droplets trapped in mineral deposits in the Kumaon mountains…
As the world’s top climate scientists issued a “final warning” on the climate crisis with the release of the last…
In 2018, the government of Jammu and Kashmir dredged the flood spill channel of the Hokersar Wetland in an apparent…
Climate change and ill-planned human interventions in the Himalayas have accentuated the vulnerability of the hills to disasters, resulting in…
A week after a flash flood swept away pilgrims and their tents near the Hindu pilgrimage site of Amarnath at…
Sunning herself on her porch in Koti – a village 28km from the Himachal Pradesh state capital Shimla in the…
It is a rocky, uneven path down to the spring where the women of Damthang village in South Sikkim go…
Snow leopards, the “mountain ghosts” of the Himalayas, live in inaccessible, icy and largely unpopulated mountain ranges about 3,000 metres…
In the space of three months in early 2021, two glacial lakes in the Indian state of Uttarakhand burst their…
Spring 2020 had just begun in the Himalayas but for Kamla Devi, 36, a resident of Nathuakhan village, in the…
The village of Palgi is mourning 27-year-old Amar Chand. He died on 21 May in an accident inside a tunnel…
Wildfires described as “the worst in a decade” have engulfed Himalayan mountain states in a thick haze and killed at…
“We are not against the ropeway or development. We are only concerned about the environment and local livelihoods,” said Sundar…
by Beth Walker/ The Third Pole The world is in an “era of pandemics”. Unless the destruction of the natural…
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