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Pilgrims take blessings from a priest at the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats. Photo by David

Green pilgrimage model balances faith and conservation

Arathi Menon 5 Sep 2023
People collecting wood in Uttarakhand. Representative image. Photo by Ashutosh Rawat/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] A decade after relocation, the lives of Van Gujjars still lack stability and security

Akshay Chettri, Neema P. Broome 29 Jun 2023
Joshimath residents near their damaged houses. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay.

Joshimath residents return to their “unsafe” homes, four months after the sinking crisis

Satyam Kumar 6 Jun 2023
Image shows a leopard sitting in a tree

Despite efforts and funds, human-wildlife conflict in Uttarakhand is not contained

Varsha Singh 20 Feb 2023
A family moving to a safe place in Joshmanth. As of January 18,849 houses were damaged and 838 people shifted to safer places. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

46 years on, there is mountain of studies but Joshimath is still sinking

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Jan 2023

As cracks widen in Joshimath, reasons lay hidden underground

Kundan Pandey 18 Jan 2023

A sinking town in Uttarakhand: What went wrong in Joshimath

Satyam Kumar, Shailesh Shrivastava 11 Jan 2023
BaA herd of elephants foraging amidsts a pile of plastic waste in Sri Lanka.

Plastic, glass and other waste materials found in elephant dung in Uttarakhand

Anusha Krishnan 27 Jun 2022

Unaccounted deaths lay bare the dark side of sand mining

Varsha Singh 7 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
Displaced people of Lohari village, live in a school because their houses have been submerged. Photo by Kapil Kajal.

As Lohari village is submerged for a dam, homes, farms and memories are drowned

Kapil Kajal 10 May 2022

A twin-state hydropower project could drown livelihoods and biodiversity

Kapil Kajal 27 Apr 2022

Can carbon-positive villages pave the way for climate resilience?

Sahana Ghosh 21 Apr 2022

Transforming a ghost village with hill-centric livelihood and tourism opportunities

Archana Singh 18 Jan 2022
Grid-connected rooftop solar plant at Ramakrishna Mission Ashram in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Photo by Muskaan Kapoor.

Solar power could emerge as a dependable energy alternative for Uttarakhand

Muskaan Kapoor 18 Nov 2021

Unseasonal rains take 79 lives in Uttarakhand, some experts link it to climate change

Trilochan Bhatt 2 Nov 2021

Tracking rivers, the highways of plastic waste

Anusha Krishnan 18 Oct 2021

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

Seema Sharma 5 Oct 2021
Solar panels in Uttarakhand. State government has launched a solar self-employment scheme to distribute small solar plants upto 25 kilowatt (kW) to 10,000 individuals by the end of March 2022.. Photo by Varsha Singh

Delays and glitches mar Uttarakhand’s solar self-employment scheme

Varsha Singh 22 Sep 2021

[Commentary] The role of hydropower projects in development and disasters in Uttarakhand

Jeet Singh 2 Aug 2021