Scholars focus on degradation of mountains

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Of mountains & ozone holes

When poets wrote for Down To Earth

The gold diggers

Clearing the trash

Moving mountains

MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD — A GLOBAL PRIORITY·edited by B Messerli and J D Ives· published by the Parthenon Publishing Group, UK&…

Trends in high places

Traditional timber-and-slate houses vs a neo-concrete nightmare in a Himachal village

Mountain biodiversity tops Montreal meet agenda

The entire gamut of activities that threaten ecosystems in the mountain regions dominated discussions at the meeting of the scientific advisory …

Mounting problem

Human activities are degrading mountain ranges worldwide

Imbalances need to be improved

Egbert Pelinck , director general, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, spoke to Prakash Khanal on …

A political mountain to climb: Why the Alps are such a commonly used metaphor in European thought

Fascists used the Alps as grounds on which to improve the health of the nation

Himalayan plunder: Stop excessive, aggressive development

Incidents such as Joshimath subsidence will continue to occur if policy approaches do not change

African mountains are feeling the heat of climate change

Changing patterns of snowfall have big implications for mountain heat budgets

TANZANIA

Flash floods are man-made

Environmental geologist K S Valdiya lives in Uttarakhand and keeps a tab on the changing geological processes in the Himalayan region. He was …

Walk in the Nilgiris

The various chapters of The Nilgiri Hills, edited by anthropologist Paul Hockings, do not just discuss the culture and biodiversity of the …

Simply Put: Joining hands

Simply Put: Warming hills

What are cloudbursts? Should we be prepared for more frequent occurrences?

A cloudburst is a sudden spell of localised, heavy rainfall where the amount of rainfall over a particular area exceeds 100 millimetres in an hour

When mountain comes melting

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

The UAE wants to build a 'rainmaking mountain' – are we all ok with that?

The point is that hills make rain – or to be more precise, hills can create the conditions which cause moisture in the air to condense and …

Forests feel the heat

Photosynthetic rate of forests in high elevation areas across the world has been falling since 1990s

Book Excerpt: Jerusalem, the isolated hill town high in the Judean Hills

‘Jerusalem Through the Ages: From Its Beginnings to the Crusades’ presents a broad yet detailed account of how Jerusalem …

Magnetism of Himalayan rocks reveals the mountains’ complex tectonic history

The tectonic collision that formed the world’s largest mountain range was actually a complex, multi-stage process — and not a …

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Local lessons

Taking climate change negotiations out of international discussion boards to the villages