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, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
Response of Terminalia chebula Retz. to application with three different biofertilizers like Azospirillum, phospobacteria and vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal (VAM) and four differerent biofertilizers combinations like Azospirillum and Phospobacteria, Azospirillum with VAM, Phospobacteria with VAM and Azospirillum with Phosbacteria and VAM was studied under nursery condition.
Shimla: The spotting of two snow leopards by wildlife staff near Chichim in Kibber area of Lahaul-Spiti area a few days back has raised the hopes of an increase in the number of the highly endangered animal for which a special conservation programme is being launched. It was on March …
With water sources drying up fast due to deforestation and excessive construction on the hills, environmentalists have raised the pitch for scrapping the Himachal Pradesh Apartment Regulation Act which has opened floodgates for colonisers. Vast stretches of once lush green hills have been transformed into veritable concrete jungles with clusters …
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) today launched eight new programmes. The launch of the programmes was announced by professor M.S. Swaminathan, chair for sustainable development, IGNOU, while launching his book,
KOCHI: Contrary to the findings of the Union Environment Ministry, the Himalayan glaciers are retreating at a rapid rate, environmental activist and scientist Vandana Shiva has said. Though it will not be possible to pinpoint the exact timing of glacier melting as 2035, as suggested by the Inter-Governmental Panel for …
Anil S KOCHI: Calling upon governments across the world to devise a quick action plan to deal with the rapid retreat of the Himalayan glaciers, environmental activist Vandana Shiva said the glaciers might not survive this century if the melting continued. Quoting some of the findings of `Climate Change at …
This work reports an attempt to make use of the indigenously developed high resolution IRS-1C satellite imagery to generate a database, including expertize from different organizations involved in floral, soil, microbial, hydro, socio-economic and geological fields. In the absence of large scale topographic maps, high resolution precision geocoded PAN + …
Stating that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will make efforts to ensure that its fifth assessment report carries no errors, its chairman R K Pachauri has ruled out stepping down even if the United Nations-constituted review committee finds faults in the procedures followed by the panel.
India, China and Nepal are set to launch a joint conservation initiative for the Mount Kailash landscape. The conservation will be meant to tackle the issue of glacial melt, biodiversity conservation and, interestingly, also have a mandate for cultural conservation in the Himalayan region. This would be a first-of-its-kind trans-boundary …
In the northeast region of India, the societal water use is less than 5 per cent of the existing potential. This leads to vast devastation, poor crop yields, constrained livelihood options, malnutrition and drudgery. The region and the households witness `water poverty
- Late melting of glaciers & dry spell decrease ganga flow OUR CORRESPONDENT The Farakka barrage in Murshidabad Malda, March 22: The dry spell sweeping across north India has resulted in the Ganga flowing at a very low level, an alarming situation that is likely to affect the power production …
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today stressed the need for creating public awareness to protect environment and irrational use of precious natural resources. He was speaking at the inauguration of the three-day-long conference on Himalayan Environment Issues and Challenges organised by the Institute of Integrated Himalayan Studies (IIHS), Himachal Pradesh …
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Monday assured Parliament that India would resist any kind of attempt to unseat Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman R.K. Pachauri, asserting that the government had full faith and confidence in him. Replying to supplementaries during question …
The Government on Monday told Parliament that it would contest any attempt to remove RK Pachauri as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and said,
New Delhi: The government on Monday came out in strong support of embattled Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chief R K Pachauri, holding that it will
The Comptroller and Auditor-General of India is planning a comprehensive audit of water pollution in India that would cover the extent and causes of pollution of lakes, rivers and ground water. The aim of the audit would be to identify critical issues and suggest solutions that would help the government …
After being grilled at the United Nations, Dr R.K. Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, found himself being pressured once again to explain whether he was going resign. Mr Pachauri clarified that the question of his putting in his papers over what he described as
The United Nations launched an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has come under much criticism in the recent months. The decision was announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri in the wake of a report by the body which erroneously …
