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June 30, 2004: The India Eco-Development Project -- a project meant to enhance the country's biodiversity and provide people living inside and …
How to contain Himalayan tsunamis
The Himalaya has one of the most fragile topographies among mountain ranges of the world on account of being the youngest. Even though its phase …
Saviour and guardian of Himalayan ecology are suffering: experts
Mountain people in the Himalayas lack a unified voice when it comes to preserving their ecosystems and claiming control over what is rightfully theirs
Study finds most Himalayan birds migrate downslope, but climate impact may affect it
Researchers studied 302 Himalayan species over the span of 10 years to analyse migrational patterns
Himalayan birds at higher risk of losing unique traits: Study
The global extinction crisis will lead to widespread losses of morphological diversity above that expected by species loss alone
Mushroom-growing Elm trees can empower Barot village communities
Small innovations often occur at the grassroot level, and these may hold clues for local and regional-level solutions
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
How climate change has ravaged India's Himalayan states
Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which has a major influence on the Indian summer monsoon, has experienced extreme warm weather events in the last 60 …
Himalayan meltdown: Hindu Kush Himalayan region warming faster than global average
Capping global warming at 1.5°C will still mean a higher rate for the region through this century
World Environment Day 2023: Springs need urgent revival for water security in the Indian Himalayas
The neglect of springs and aquifers in the context of rivers and watersheds has led to large gaps in developing a national response to spring …
Himalayan plunder: Certain towns at greater risk
While the entire Himalayan region is fragile, the zones that receive snow and rain are the most unstable
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 …
Scientists re-confirm possibility of large earthquakes in the Himalayas
The study is based on data collected from 70 continuous and three episodic GPS stations in different parts of country from 1996 to 2015
Hiroshima isotopes help solve mystery surrounding 1950 Assam-Tibet earthquake
It is the biggest earthquake to rock the Himalayas so far with a magnitude of 8.6 on the Richter scale
About 70 hydropower projects in Himalayas at risk of quake-triggered landslides
The risk of building dams in the Himalayan region is manifold and that has again being emphasised in a recent study on 2015 Nepal earthquake
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 plunder: Save the springs of the region
Drying up of the important water sources will have a profound impact on people and the ecosystem
How Uttarakhand’s pristine forests are being concretised for tourism
The mountain views and the beleaguered mountain wildlife may soon become memories of the past if better land use policies are not established
Women power: Uttarakhand village women revive dry springs, end water woes
With the help of experts and through the community, they found a solution to their hardships
Time to revive our traditional knowledge systems
It is time traditional knowledge systems, which were passed on orally through legends and myths, are revived so that local communities can prosper
Himalayan hydropower projects built near glacial lakes pose risk to environment
An increase in the demand for electricity has led to the construction of a large number of HPPs upstream near glacial lakes
Global warming is taking its toll on the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. Mountains that were completely decked with snow are now barren. …
Joshimath crisis: Tourist influx in Himalayan states adding to ecological burden
Tourism infrastructure in Hindu Kush Himalayan region poorly planned, 2019 ICIMOD report found
The cost of development in Himalaya
There is a link between the disaster and the manner in which development has been carried out in this ecologically fragile region
Drug debacle: Diclofenac was not the last threat for India’s vultures
Sixteen years after India banned the veterinary use of diclofenac to save its vultures, three other drugs revive the old challenge
