Monsoon’s debut week in Himachal: Disaster toll already at 44
Wednesday’s Kullu cloudburst among 10 major incidents since rains started June 29 in hill state
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In Pictures: How climate change is threatening the livelihood of Himalayan shepherds
The rising temperature in the Himalayan region has increased pests and diseases among livestock. This is affecting wool quality, reducing animal …
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (June 30, 2020)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
COVID-19 lockdown a pause in Himachal’s exotic vegetable success story
Demand for produce plummets, forcing most farmers to throw away the crop or feed it to cattle
Himachal's Kharif onion initiative: Can it help check annual price rise?
The project focusses on Dalit and tribal women farmers in Chamba growing onion with the help of Solan University
Himachal farmers now poisoning monkeys
Farmers have confirmed this development, which means the whole issue takes an entirely new dimension
Himalayan water-sharing system endangered
Modern practices are threatening to break up an unusual water-tapping and water-sharing process in Himachal Pradesh. Devised hundreds of years ago,…
HP village plugs hydel project
In an unprecedented development, the members of a gram sabha in Himachal Pradesh exercised rights conferred on them under the fifth schedule of …
Addressing internal and external market challenges key for supporting India’s apple farmers
Measures like market intervention schemes for remunerative prices, improved institutional support & comprehensive strategies to resolve value …
Why Hatti community leaders want Fifth Schedule status
The Hatti community lives along the Giri and Tons rivers in southeastern Himachal; they feel their development has been stalled due to …
How one Gram Panchayat in Himachal built a waste-free, water-surplus village
Pappla village constructed water-harvesting structures, soak pits and a plastic waste processing plant to transform itself
Shimla is fragile; it does not need counter-magnet and satellite towns
Instead of increasing infrastructure in Shimla to promote tourism, the government should fix tourist inflow and improve existing amenities
Dealing with climate fury: Why small is big
This microcosm from a lesser-known mountainous region such as Kumaon represents the macrocosm — where humanity wears a macabre face and …
Writing on the wall: Himachal govt report warned of rise in cloudbursts, landslides in 2012
Rainy days in Himachal would go up by 5-10 days by 2030, the report by Himachal government had warned
Life or livelihood: COVID-19 second wave puts up tough choice for Himachal farmers
Farmers caught between life and livelihood as second wave coincides with the year’s only farming season
Blazing India: The Himachal hills feel the heat too, but in different ways
As the plains scorch, residents head for the hills in the thousands, posing a threat to their fragile ecology
Himachal's fodder management initiative can help save lives of rural women
Many rural women in hilly states sustain injuries while collecting fodder; agro forestry initiative to help address this issue
Climate change in India: Mountains play hocus-focus in Himachal Pradesh
Climate change has reduced grass cover, forcing nomadic communities in the state to alter their age-old tour patterns and profession
Himachal Pradesh: Floods hit 16th state this monsoon, to impact crop yield
The hill state got 15 times its normal rainfall on Sunday owing to a depression settled over west MP and east Rajasthan
Quarrying for trouble
Controversy over Himachal limestone mining The subject of limestone mining in ecologically fragile Himachal Pradesh has become a political …
Afforestation project suspended as anti-poor
A scheme under which 75,000 families were to each get and maintain two ha of forest land has been put on hold following fears that it would …
Labour pains
Birla Textile Mill in Himachal Pradesh is yet to pay dues to 2,300 workers. The unit was 'shifted' from Delhi for causing pollution
Apple orchardists in Himachal worry after unseasonal rain and snow kill Italian honeybees
Apple, stone fruit growers rent Italian bees from apiarists for pollination of their crops in April
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (August 23, 2023)