Tying a green knot

In a small town in Chamoli district of Uttar Pradesh, a marriage is also a tree-planting occasion

Skeleton Lake

What happens when ice melts in the Roopkund tarn?

12 grain route to prosperity

Jyotika Sood finds out how farmers in the Himalaya manage food round the year

Web unravels

Spiders can tell us about the health of the environment

Uttaranchal's pastoralists deliberate over saving their depleting pastures

Uttaranchal's pastoralists discuss depleting pasturelands

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

The rift valley

With no income options, Ghangharia residents want forestland for hotels

Shaky foundations

Sleepless in Chamoli

Landslide leads to lake formation on the Ramganga, which may burst any time

Darkness at midnight

A devastating earthquake in the Chamoli region of Uttar Pradesh kills over 100 people, most of them in their sleep

FIR against dam activists

Devsari hearing postponed

Cleared at cost of biodiversity

Environment ministry clears hydro project rejected twice by its advisory committee

Green tribunal halts tree felling for Alaknanda-Badrinath hydropower project

Bench says no tree can be felled without prior permission of tribunal

Sikkim earthquake was unusual for Himalaya

It occurred due to sliding, not thrust motion

The Chipko movement as it stands today

The idea behind the Chipko movement originated in early 1970s from Mandal, a village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. Forty-three years later, …

चिपको की छांव में

उत्तराखंड में बहुत कुछ बदल चुका है, लेकिन चार दशक बाद भी कई इलाकों में चिपको आंदोलन का असर साफ नजर आता है।

Embrace of an unforgettable conservation crusade lingers on

Impacts of Chipko are still visible in the state after four decades.

Garhwal, Himachal could experience a 8 magnitude quake in future: study

New paper says this is because very less seismic energy has been released since the 1975 Kinnaur earthquake