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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Researchers unravel floral biodiversity
Four new balsam species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh during a Himalayas expedition Throwing fresh light on the uncharted biodiversity in India’s north-eastern region, researchers from the University
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Dendrogeomorphic potential of the Himalaya – case studies of process dating of natural hazards in Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh
<p>Trees impacted by the forces of natural processes such as flash floods, snow avalanches, landslides, rockfalls or earthquakes, record these events and exhibit growth disturbances in their growth-ring
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Conservation of Biodiversity, 22/12/2017
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Conservation of Biodiversity, 22/12/2017. Conservation and development of biodiversity in the country, including Himalayan region is undertaken inter alia through establishment
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NGT didn't give full opportunity to present case: Amarnath
The Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) today said the National Green Tribunal (NGT) had issued directives without giving a full opportunity to it to present its case. The NGT on December 13 had declared
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NGT declares Amarnath cave shrine 'silence zone'
NEW DELHI: In a bid to preserve the eco- sensitive Amarnath cave shrine in south Kashmir Himalayas, the National Green Tribunal today declared it a "silence zone" and prohibited religious offerings beyond
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Global warming to claim 33% of ice volume in Hindu Kush Himalayan region: Expert
KATHMANDU: Global warming is not only posing a serious threat to glaciers, it will also result in a loss of 33 per cent of total ice volume in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region by the end of the century,
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Climate change the villain for late cherry blossoms
In this season of elections in Meghalaya, cherry blossoms bloomed late leading to controversies over the state government’s much hyped festival and leaving Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, whose brainchild
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding restoration of Gauri Kund spring near Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, 07/11/2017
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Pratiba Naitthani Vs. Union of India & Others dated 07/11/2017 regarding Gauri Kund spring near Kedarnath in the Himalayan Range in the State
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Climate change has enormous implications in Himalayas: Senator
Aparna Pande, director of Hudson's India Initiative, said that weak states and contested sovereignties across the Himalayas have induced a number of regional actors to seek deeper physical and economic
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Mountain women bear the brunt of climate change
Women, who do the majority of drudge work, in the economically and environmentally fragile Hindu Kush Himalayas region are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change. Women hurling pine