Threat From Climate Change Reshaping Some Religious Beliefs
The famous pilgrimage site of Kedarnath, located in the central Himalayas of India, is believed to be a sacred land....
The famous pilgrimage site of Kedarnath, located in the central Himalayas of India, is believed to be a sacred land....
One of the largest glaciers in the Suru river valley in Ladakh has been retreating at a much faster rate...
“As scientists, what worries us the most is the scale at which the glaciers are melting in the Himalayas,” said...
On 26 July, 2023, the lower house of the Indian parliament, amidst protests, passed a Bill to amend the country’s...
When water levels rose in a tributary of the Koshi river during the 2019 monsoon, villagers of Launiya in Nepal’s...
In May this year, I followed the Hengduan mountains into the south-east of Tibet. Now, in June, I’m passing through...
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...