Gangtok, in Sikkim, was reeling under acute water shortage, after a cloud burst-induced landslide on April 20 damaged the city’s…
In the Himalayas, increasing temperatures and glacier recession have resulted in the formation of new glacial lakes and the expansion…
In recent months, numerous reports of dangerous avalanches in the Himalayas have made the headlines. These sudden releases of snow,…
The Himalayas are relatively new mountains, created by the Indian tectonic plate being pushed under the Eurasian plate, causing it…
“I can assure you one thing that the mountains are changing. And they are changing very fast. There is something…
In September 2011, a team of researchers from the Institute of Mountain Environment (IME), University of Jammu, found a pair…
Source: PTI Majority of Himalayan glaciers analysed are melting or retreating at varying rates in different regions, the government has…
Within weeks of the partial evacuation of Joshimath, an ancient pilgrim town in Uttarakhand, northern India, land started to sink…
Last week, Ladakh-based maverick climate activist Sonam Wangchuk went on a 5-day fast to raise awareness about receding glaciers and…
Wildfires and flash floods are two of the most visible symptoms of climate change across the Himalayas. The two phenomena…
The Himalayan town of Joshimath is sinking. Its houses have been declared dangerous to live in and hitherto, 600 families…
Residents of the ancient pilgrim town of Joshimath were forced to flee their homes in the freezing weather of January…
Pictures of enigmatic snow leopards roaming the scenic Annapurna area come to mind when outsiders think about carnivores and predators…
Infrastructure development continued on a grand scale and at a rapid pace in South Asia and the Himalayas in 2022,…
Biodiversity is in the headlines as 2022 comes to an end, with a “historic” deal to reverse biodiversity loss by…
From the foothills of the Himalayas to the islands of the Jamuna River, cultural traditions are being impacted by climate…
(Source: PTI) Scientists on Wednesday said there is a strong possibility of a major earthquake in the Himalayan region and…
Earlier this week, on October 4, an avalanche hit a team of mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM),…
Amitav Ghosh’s latest book, The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times, defies easy reactions. A review is supposed to…
It is late April 2022. At Namche Bazaar, a town in the Everest region of Nepal at an elevation of…
After three-month-long rigorous trekking, including a one-month journey in Nepal, the 50-plus all Women Trans Himalayan expedition team is back…
As he talks about his 200-hectare oil palm plantation, Dature Miuli becomes visibly emotional. A passionate farmer and agro-entrepreneur in…
Scientists have identified 100 pressing research questions on climate change and water resources in the Upper Indus Basin (UIB), which…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the second of its three-part report in the 6th assessment cycle.…
Nomadic shepherds in the central Himalayas are facing a double threat. Not only is more and more pasture land being…
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