HKS Snow Update 2025
<p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend,
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Notch in the mountains
PERHAPS no other geographical location attracts researchers, non-governmental organisations and social workers like the Indian Himalaya does. Yet, despite all the effort and finances that have gone
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Unkindest cuts
Large scale smuggling of timber from Nepal to Tibet threatens the pristine forests in the northern Himalaya
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Is Mt Everest the tallest peak?
Scientists studying the evolution of the highest Himalayan peaks will soon announce the exact elevation of Mt Everest at present.
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Saved!
The endangered cheer, a pheasant found only in a few pockets in the western Himalaya, has been successfully reared in captivity for the first time in India. Lalit Mohan, a zoologist cum forester in
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The sapling brigade
IN JANUARY, Doordarshan aired a documentary called The Green Brigade, which despite a typical Films Division tone, was informative, interesting and even balanced. It was on the Ecological Task Force
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Future shocks
Devastating earthquakes are waiting to strike India
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Himalayan yew to fight cancer
Taxol, an effective anti cancer drug that was approved for use in the US last year, will soon be available in India at half the cost
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Biopirates in the dragnet
Air pollution levels rise drastically in Asia; push health costs<br> <br>
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Bioprates in the dragnet
Illegal smuggling of insects from the Himalaya comes into focus with the arrest of two Russians in Sikkim
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Protecting biodiversity
the g b Pant Institute for Himalayan Biodiversity and Development at Kosi-Katarmal, near Almora, Uttaranchal, had recently organised a three-day national workshop to define a action plan for