High altitude, high pressure

Ladakh's leadership is alive to many problems. But, challenges are not easy

Panchayati Raj: A good beginning

But will there be a place for traditional institutions in modern local self-governance?

More energy, Less wastage

Solar is Ladakh's way out of the diesel trap

Re-schooling ladakh

Eight years of reforms have turned government schools around in Leh district

An attractive Place to go

Tourism's footprint is too big for Leh's infrastructure

A farewell to farms

Ladakh survives on its farms. But can agriculture survive government policies?

Science and Technology - Briefs

News 360° - Briefs

News 360 ° - Briefs

Dry winter: Water levels in dams on Himachal rivers decline to half of their capacity; experts warn of thirsty summer

Snow & rain during December and January was supposed to replenish state’s glaciers  

ICIMOD report rings warning bells for rivers of East, Northeast India

Rivers in the Eastern Himalayas get less water from glacial melt; Still, the perennial nature of several rivers could be lost, say experts

Glaciers in 50 iconic UNESCO World Heritage sites will be gone by 2050

Mount Everest and Kilimanjaro, Yellowstone National Park, the Pyrenees and the Andes ranges, all will lose glaciers, according to UNESCO

Climate change in Third Pole: As glaciers melt, two lakes grow larger; NASA releases images

The two lakes — Chibzhang Co and Dorsoidong Co — in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region grew larger between October 1987 and 2021&…

The Periglacial Environment

It is an authoritative overview of the world’s cold, non–glacial environments.

Answer to ‘Karakoram Anomaly’ found?

Scientists say the reason behind the Karakoram Range’s glaciers not being affected by climate change could be intensification of irrigation …

Photo essay: The Missing Zangti

The Himalayan region is highly sensitive towards changes in global climate, and more than half of glaciers in Satluj Basin are set to vanish by 2050

Hindu Kush Himalayas are changing. Ramp up adaptation, urges ICIMOD

Hindu Kush Himalayan glaciers could lose up to 80 per cent of their current volume by 2100 in a business-as-usual scenario, according to the …

Store water in the sky

Three decades after 'ice man' Chewang Norphel first harvested water in the form of artificial glaciers in Ladakh, Sonam Wangchuk, a young …

China and India’s border dispute is a slow-moving environmental disaster

Almost half the world’s population and 20% of its economy depend on Himalayan rivers. China and India’s …

When mountain comes melting

Fast-receding glaciers will impact water supplies and disrupt economic activities in mountain regions—in the not-too-distant future

Waterworks India: Chewang Norphell

A brief clip from the movie Waterworks India profiling Chewang Norphell, a civil engineer who has found a unique way to combat the water …

Himalayan water-sharing system endangered

Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water-tapping and water-sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago,…

Getting to the core

Drilling of ice cores in the Himalayan glaciers reveal that global warming is altering climate patterns

Ice does not lie

Says the eminent Alaskan scientist Maynard Miller. manu n kulkarni visits this land of the midnight sun to know what causes its glaciers to …

'Farmers in Ladakh are among biggest victims of climate change'

After inventing the first artificial glacier in 1987, Chewang Norphel came to be known as “Ice Man of India”. He talks about how …