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A landscape view of Champawat town, Uttarakhand. Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change in the Himalayas. Image by WhiteRaven335 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Urban expansion drives forest loss in India’s biodiversity hotspots

T. V. Padma 23 Sep 2024

Uttarakhand forests burn while fire guards face outstanding salaries and lack of resources

Megha Prakash 5 Aug 2024

Does size matter? How leopards on forest fringes choose livestock kill

Divya Kilikar 26 Jul 2024

Joshimath’s economy wanes as tourists dwindle

Kuldeep Singh 1 Mar 2024
Hydro project on Dikchu, a tributary of Teesta. Photo by A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF/Wikimedia Commons.

[Video] Hydropower in the Himalayas and disaster risks

Sadhika Tiwari 12 Jan 2024
Trishul mountain peaks in the Kumaon range.

Scientists have found ancient ocean water in the Himalayas that could offer insights about evolution

Niladry Sarkar 13 Dec 2023

[Commentary] Up close and personal with the fragility of the Himalayas

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Oct 2023
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 and 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