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,
Himalaya
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Rocking the Himalayas
Indian seismic experts are in a tizzy over predictions of an imminent gigantic earthquake in the central Himalayas
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Uphill task completed
IN THE past century, humans have polluted the oceans, poisoned rivers and lakes, made deserts of good, arable land, felled forests, and severely eroded the mountainsides. This book seeks to protect
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Automatic warning
Posting humans to inhospitable sites in the Himalaya to monitor snow and wind patterns may soon be unnecessary
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Heights of degradation
Himalayan conservation gets a start at a recent seminar in the Capital
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High fever
The setting up of a high-powered Himalayan Development Authority has run into rough weather. A committee headed by Planning Commission member S Z Qasim, set up in March 1992 to address the problems
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Competing with wheat
Human made triticale is nutritionally superior to wheat and could become a major foodcrop in the lower Himalayan region
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Cleaning up Mt Everest
The environment ministers of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and India are likely to meet soon to work out a clean-up programme for the Himalaya. The idea for the 'Save
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Twice cursed
The ministry of environment and forests (MEF) has asked for an urgent clarification from its Nepalese counterpart on a Sino-Nepalese proposal to set up a natural reserve around the highest
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New fruit of jam
SOME HIMALAYAN species of Ficus -- the genus to which the pipal and the banyan belong -- yield fruit that have high nutritive value and are excellent for making into jams and jellies. Scientists
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Putting an end to commercialisation
WHEN I first visited the Alaknanda valley in the 1960s, there were few footprints on the path leading to the Hemkund-Lokpal shrine and the Valley of Flowers and nature was resplendent in all its