Yar Tsa Gumba

A miraculous mushroom, over-exploited, is on the brink of extinction

High hopes

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

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

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 …

China debunks greens

China recently released a policy document debunking environmentalists' accusations that it was exploiting the Himalayan region for the benefit of …

The great Himalayan flood

Geological evidence points to a historic inundation

CHIRU IN TROUBLE

LHASA

ECOLOGICAL THREAT

Bird flu in Tibet, Kazakhstan

India sounds caution; nations building drug stockpile

Ozone hole over Tibet

Claims Chinese study

Microbe hunt

Will people gain from project to find beneficial microbes?

With warm regrets

A US boutique is fined for selling shahtoosh shawls. In India, the government plans to ban its sale

Tibetan saga

An environmental report checks the impact of Chinese rule over Tibet

Thriving trade

Bytes

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

Ozone halo

Around the Tibetan plateau

Warm changes

Global warming will affect the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau

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&…

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

Sikkim earthquake was unusual for Himalaya

It occurred due to sliding, not thrust motion

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