Is Shimla’s white Christmas a thing of the past !
byShimla : Oh, for a white Christmas and New Year! That is now the feeling in Shimla where snow on Christmas has become a…
Environment
Uttarakhand bans mining in Ganga
byDehra Dun : Succumbing to the indefinite hunger strike undertaken by Shivanand Saraswati, founder head of the Matrisadan Ashram in the holy city of…
Himachal hydro, trading local environment for climate change: German study
byShimla: Hydropower dams in Himalayas, marketed as clean energy that will earn developers cash credits under carbon-offsetting Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme, appear to…
Over 9 hectares of forests lost per minute: UN report
byRome : More than nine hectares of forests were lost per minute between 1990 and 2005, a period when the world’s deforestation rate accelerated,…
‘Rohtang’s ecology needs preservation’
byManali : Human interference disturbing the fragile ecology of a high Himalayan mountain pass overlooking this tourist resort has caught the attention of the…
Sewage, saltwater used to grow trees in Israel desert
byJerusalem: Scientists in Israel are growing trees in the barren land of the Arava desert by using recycled sewage and saltwater. This forest planted…
Tibet vulnerable to climate change, says Karmapa
byDharamsala : Tibet is highly vulnerable to climate change and what happens there matters greatly to the rest of mainland Asia, the 17th Karmapa…
Kashmir cackles with 600,000 bird visitors
byHokarsar Bird Reserve (Jammu and Kashmir) : This premier wetland in Srinagar is in the prime of its beauty these days — it…
Cleansing sins, polluted Yamuna flows on
byNew Delhi: In the dark, a small stretch of the bank along the otherwise polluted Yamuna resembled an oasis of light. Dotted with installations…
Man-elephant conflict over territory in Uttarakhand – Experts
byDehra Dun : Though concerned wildlife wardens have signed a death warrant for the wild elephant that was declared a rogue recently, pachyderm experts…