Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems

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

The government committee denies environmental clearance, even as illegal riverbed mining continues all over northern India

Building bumper-to-bumper dams increases disaster risks in the region

West Bengal government’s dream to develop the world’s second-largest coal mine becomes a nightmare as elections loom

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

A combination of low costs, savings in fossil fuel consumption and useful secondary products has made biogas increasingly popular in rural Bhutan

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

As India’s hydropower hotspot, Himachal Pradesh offers important lessons about the huge risks of building large dams in the Himalayas

India should rewrite outdated, colonial laws and empower local people so that embankments work for communities and nature