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Long-term monitoring of Himalayan glaciers essential to assess their health

Ridhi Agrawal 23 Aug 2024

Kancha Sherpa, a member of the first successful expedition to Everest, is worried. Here’s why.

Nidhi Jamwal 25 Jun 2024

Western Himalayas more “risk prone” than the East, according to new index

Simrin Sirur 11 Mar 2024

Brokpas bank on yak milk products to sustain traditional livelihood

Barasha Das 1 Feb 2024
Prayer flags in Lo Manthang, Nepal.

Nepal’s traditional healers push for recognition and licensing of their age-old practices

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 3 Jan 2024
A snow leopard photographed at Himalayan Zoological Park Bulbuley near Gangtok. Photo by Nanda Ramesh/ Wikimedia Commons

Study finds climate change causing snow leopards to scale altitudes

Arathi Menon 12 Oct 2023

Accelerated glacier retreat in Ladakh could spawn three glacial lakes, Wadia Institute study says

Simrin Sirur 10 Aug 2023
An ibisbill at river Sindh. Photo from Iqram ul Haq.

Ibisbill, the poorly understood Himalayan waterbird faces threats, finds study

Hirra Azmat 24 Mar 2023
A Himalayan ibex in the Spiti Valley. Photo by Madhumita Das/ Wikimedia Commons.

Livestock and wild herbivores impact soil carbon differently

T. V. Padma 23 Mar 2023

As cracks widen in Joshimath, reasons lay hidden underground

Kundan Pandey 18 Jan 2023
Namche Bazaar. Photo by Superkent/ Pixabay.

How an underground phenomenon triggered by global warming is damaging the Himalayas

Arathi Menon 16 Jun 2022
Traffic jam at Saribal. Photo by Mike Prince/ Wikimedia Commons.

North India’s hills are feeling the heat too, but differently

Archana Singh 27 May 2022

The home of Chipko movement, now epicentre of disasters and relocation challenges

Seema Sharma 5 Oct 2021

Excitement of Himalayan pheasant sighting dulled by potential threats to the bird

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jun 2021

Conserving the grass on Himalayan slopes

Hridayesh Joshi 4 Dec 2020

Conserve both large intact and small degraded habitats to maintain biodiversity

Aathira Perinchery 3 Aug 2020

How glaciers in the western Himalayas are reacting differently to climate change and human activities

Mayank Aggarwal 15 Jul 2020

Protect India’s forests and urban green spaces, says India’s climate change report

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Jun 2020

Forests outside protected areas will be important to save Himalayan langurs: study

Sahana Ghosh 16 Jun 2020

Climate change threatens traditional way of life of Brokpa herders in Arunachal Pradesh

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 15 Jan 2020