Vegetables perk up Ladakh's winters

Greenhouses made of plastic and wood are creating a green revolution in Ladakh.

The highest view

Leh focuses

Sea buckthorn leaves can cure liver ailments

Little harvest, less land to till

Leh farmers face losses as flood debris rendered land uncultivable

Leh’s labour lost

Half-built houses, no labourers. Winter threatens to be harsh

Fixing old houses on Himalaya

German architect Andre Alexander has been restoring old buildings in the Tibetan capital Lhasa for 15 years now. Over the past few years he has …

Documentary films on climate change

Locust menace worsens in Ladakh

"Subsidy culture has killed local agriculture"

Thupstan Chhewang, Chief Executive Councillor and chairperson of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) speaks to Down To Earth.

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?

Ladakh's politics of consensus

A lesson, in election times?

Living in style in Ladakh

The Ladakh Ecological Development Group is working to make the harsh life of Ladakhis easier through improved housing and easier methods of …

A spoonful of salt, butter

The Ladakhi way to beat the cold

Natural elements keep homes comfortable

A new architectural technique uses the sun and other natural elements to regulate temperature, thereby helping to conserve non-renewable energy …

Leh berry fields forever

Farmers' cooperatives in Ladakh process seabuckthorn berries and profit

Biting cold for pashmina

Thousands of changra goats die of starvation as record snow buries pastures

Left to die

The double-humped Yarkandi camels in Ladakh are on the route to extinction after the closure of the 'silk route'

Pastures gone

Wildlife harvesting

Sustainable harvesting of chiru may help save the Tibetan antelope