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,
Mountain Ecosystems
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Sherpa team plans to clean Everest `death zone'
BINAJ GURUBACHARYA KATHMANDU A team of of Sherpas plans to remove bodies of climbers who died in Everest's `death zone', a treacherous stretch that has claimed some 300 lives since 1953
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China, Nepal agree to disagree on Everest
Nepal and China on Thursday resolved a long- standing row over the height of the world
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Inception report on validating community-based water resources management approaches for hill and mountain ecosystems
The project on Validating Community-Based Water Resources
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Biodiversity assessment in some selected hill forests of south Orissa, India
Biodiversity is declining seriously on a global scale, underscoring the importance of conservation planning. Except protected areas and reserve forests, scientific studies on biodiversity of special habitats in India are meager like the other areas of the world. Furthermore, extensive surveys of biodiversity have not been conducted for a majority of taxonomic groups and ecosystem types.
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Climate change impacts and vulnerability in the Eastern Himalayas
In this latest report ICIMOD has highlighted the vulnerability of the Eastern Himalayan ecosystems to climate change as a result of their ecological fragility and economic marginality.
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Mountains as early indicators of climate change
The overall objective of the conference was to discuss the role of mountains as early indicators of climate change and the impact of global warming on mountain ecosystems. Specially, the actual state and the open gaps of scientific research were presented on several early indicators and in different mountain regions around the world.
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Ecosystem-based adaptation: a natural response to climate change
This report presents 10 examples of Ecosystem-based Adaptation taking place in both developing and developed countries, at national, regional, and local scales, and in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater environments.
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A Himalayan double whammy
Q&A: Maharaj K Pandit, director of the CISMHE Latha Jishnu / New Delhi November 20, 2009, 0:40 IST
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Manmohan calls for saving Himalayan eco-system
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday emphasised the need for greater engagement and coordination with all the country
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Wildlife association plays proactive role
Udhagamandalam: Having been formed by a band of conservation minded persons way back in 1877 as the Nilgiri Game Association and now known as the Nilgiri Wildlife and Environment Association (NWLEA), the oldest conservation association in the country is set to give an impetus to the role it has been playing over the years in safeguarding the fragile eco-system of the Blue Mountains.