Tree planting pushes out pastoralists in the Himalayas
January 19, 2021
Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems
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January 19, 2021
Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems
January 04, 2021
Ropeways are being touted by the Indian government as an environment-friendly form of transport in the Himalayas, but experts and locals say they risk disturbing fragile mountain ecosystems and disrupting livelihoods
November 26, 2020
The government committee denies environmental clearance, even as illegal riverbed mining continues all over northern India
October 30, 2020
Building bumper-to-bumper dams increases disaster risks in the region
October 09, 2020
West Bengal government’s dream to develop the world’s second-largest coal mine becomes a nightmare as elections loom
September 01, 2020
As a massive road-widening project continues to roll through the Indian state of Uttarakhand, residents battle landslides and the future of the environment is unclear
August 10, 2020
A combination of low costs, savings in fossil fuel consumption and useful secondary products has made biogas increasingly popular in rural Bhutan
August 03, 2020
Going against its own orders, the government in the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has ordered the fast-tracking of environmental clearances despite manifest evidence of illegal sand mining
July 22, 2020
As India’s hydropower hotspot, Himachal Pradesh offers important lessons about the huge risks of building large dams in the Himalayas
July 03, 2020
India should rewrite outdated, colonial laws and empower local people so that embankments work for communities and nature