India
Research has revealed that average temperature in Uttarakhand's Almora has risen by 0.46 degrees in the past 53 years.
The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) has announced that its fourth expedition will be to Ladakh, India, in June 2016. This year the carefully selected team will light up the 2550-year...
When Shyam Goel, 21, won admission to Mumbai's Marine Engineering & Research Institute, he was overjoyed.
The facilities could not be better. The school-affiliated hostel where he would live was neat. Yet two years later, he regrets leaving his hometown of Lucknow, in the...
A controversy erupted on the projected speed of glacial melt in the Himalayas after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erroneously quoted non-peer reviewed study in 2009 stating Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear altogether by 2035. They later admitted it as...
Changing Climate, Moving People is a 35-minute film made by The Energy Resource Institute (TERI), for UNESCO, which looks at disaster or climate stress related migration from three different regions in the country – Uttarakhand, Bundelkhand and Odisha. These three states are already...
ICIMOD announce the release of a new publication and a video on ‘The Value Chain Approach for Mountain Development: Case Studies from...
Come September, Kohima will be host to the third Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS-III), an annual key activity of the Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) that aims to provide a platform for the mountain states of the Indian Himalayan Region to come together, share...
An International Conference on “Green India: Strategic knowledge for combating climate change: Prospects & challenges” (GISKCCC2013) will be held at the Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India during December 5-7th , 2013, to...
