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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Cold deserts
to put a brake on vanishing Himalayan glaciers and shrinking snow cover, a 'Society of Indian Glaciologists' was recently proposed by eminent environmental scientists and glaciologists all over the
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Enemies turn friends
The weed Lantana camara is being used to make furniture and can give the economy a boost
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Water wise in Uttarakhand
Scientific implementation of developmental programmes is needed for the optimal utilisation of water resources
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Taxus treat
A rare tree whose extracts are used for an anti cancer drug is being felled illegally
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Dying wisdom: the state of India's environment fourth citizen's report
Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management. for more: http://csestore.cse.org.in/usd/review/product/list/id/62/category/33/
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Quaking mountains
The Himalayas are seismically an active mountain belt and require long term planning of townships and other long term measures to mitigate disasters
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Steaming stones
Beneath the lofty Himalayan ranges lie extremely hot and radioactive rocks, the origin of which has remained a point of debate among geologists for years now. Recently, Audrey Huerta, a geophysicist
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Here we come, eco chums!
Indigenous support systems that have been nourishing the Himalaya for centuries have become the current buzzword for progress
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Havoc in the Himalaya
<p>Read this chapter from the report "floods, flood plains and environmental myths" published by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), that broke many myths about floods in the Himalaya.</p>
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A Himalayan plunder
RITA ANAND looks at changes in Himalayan forest cover in historical perspective, focusing on the Kaghan Valley in northern Pakistan