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

After a chance sighting, writer Nimesh Ved explores how India’s endangered river dolphin is faring in Uttar Pradesh, and asks how the inland waterways project will affect it

The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests

For over 20 years, Mising people have been victims of restrictive conservation policies in the same forest that is being opened up to industry and mining

Overuse of water, poaching, garbage force birds away from Punjab’s very special lakes, till revival of a plan brings hope

Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases

The saiga antelope has been around since the Ice Age, but poaching, habitat loss and mass die-offs were catastrophic until conservation across Central Asia started to work

Scientists hope recent border clashes in the Himalayas and the pandemic will not derail the limited progress made on research cooperation over the past decade

In the run-up to the next biodiversity summit, the report card from the critically important region is worrying, say experts from the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

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