हिरोशिमा के रेडियोधर्मी तत्‍व में मिले हिमालयी भूकंपों से जुड़े संकेत

पूर्वी हिमालय के अगले हिस्‍से में वर्ष 1950 में आए 8.6 रिक्‍टर की तीव्रता वाले इस भूकंप को असम-तिब्‍बत भूकंप के नाम से जाना ...

Chinese hydropower dam on Brahmaputra becomes partly operational in Tibet

Commissioning of dam bound to raise alarm bells downstream in India’s Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Bangladesh

High hopes

Conservation area projects in Nepal prove that people and protected areas need not be mutually exclusive

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Caught in the crossfire in Nepal

The Bankariyas, a forest-dweller community of central Nepal, have been uprooted from their traditional habitat and are living like refugees in …

Nepal earthquake: death toll crosses 3,600

The toll may further rise as bodies are still feared trapped under the rubble. US, UK and India offer financial aid to Nepal

Wildlife harvesting

Sustainable harvesting of chiru may help save the Tibetan antelope

Drying wetlands

Ladakh's high altitude wetlands are under severe stress from the livestock population as well as tourist influx

Ozone halo

Around the Tibetan plateau

‘African swine fever may have come to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam from Tibet’

Swaraj Rajkhowa, acting director of ICAR-National Research Centre on Pig, Guwahati, speaks to DTE on African swine fever and pork meat ban …

Warm changes

Global warming will affect the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling …

Himalaya's human face

HIMALAYA LIFE ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD·David Zurick and P P Karan·John Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London·1999&…

Sikkim earthquake was unusual for Himalaya

It occurred due to sliding, not thrust motion

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