Manipur’s iconic Loktak Lake and its floating islands (phumdis), the last natural refuge of the endangered Sangai deer or the Indian Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii eldii), are losing ground to…
Starting late July, the Anamalai hills near Munnar in Kerala will be resplendent, clad in a purplish blue carpet. The famed neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) will burst into flower – a…
H.P. Upreti, an ex-serviceman lives in the Shakti Vihar locality of the Srinagar town of Uttarakhand. He vividly recalls the day, five years ago, when one of the worst natural…
Most rivers in South India, begin as small streams in forested mountains. The Western Ghats is filled with such streams. As they flow downhill they join other streams and gain…
Take a disaster-prone area, add some lax administration and generous helpings of construction projects and voila! What do you get? Uttarakhand, the north Indian hill state which is a perfect…
In his 1895 book, The Valley of Kashmir, Sir Walter Lawrence, who served in the Indian Civil Service in British India and was posted as the Settlement Commissioner of Kashmir,…
Is it going to be a new wave of development in the region or is it an environmental disaster in the making? The 5,040 megawatt (MW) Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project (PMP),…
Strolling through idyllic mountain landscapes, soaking in the unbridled sun and breathing in the fresh air all seem to be the recipe for a perfect holiday. That is, until you…
At the top of the world, the iconic and majestic Himalayas boast a quarter of the almost 200,000 mountain glaciers found on Earth. Dubbed the “water towers of Asia”, these…
Tajen Das’s voice is full of foreboding. It mirrors the choppy waters of the Bay of Bengal as he spruces up his fishing boat and gear for the upcoming hilsa…
