If you are putting fresh money into the market, it might be a good idea to stay with companies that don't have much to do with global suppl...

Every year, the Himalayas shed 300–400 sq km of ice, amplifying monsoonal fury that already costs India nearly Rs 50,000 crore annually, in...

Seeds of seabuckthorn and buckwheat from Ladakh are part of a NASA experiment on the ISS, studying their reaction to microgravity. Protopla...

Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated India's first climate change station in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district. Located at the Cen...

Avalanches are a recurrent danger in high-altitude areas like Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Arunachal Pradesh. To m...

India's research on Arctic, Antarctic and the Himalayas may be included in NCERT textbooks. The NCERT has set up a committee to incorporate...

India aims to enhance its weather observation network and computing systems to detect and predict small-scale severe weather events, accord...

A recent estimation conducted in Himachal Pradesh, India, as part of the Snow Leopard Population Assessment, has revealed the presence of 4...

On the basis of submissions made by various central departments, the panel said no study was carried out by Geological Survey of India, ISR...

Many readers will be astonished that the contribution of glacial melt can be just under 1% even in the higher Himalayas. The estimates of s...

The glacier collapse at Joshimath on Sunday led to a massive flood in the Dhauli Ganga river and caused large-scale devastation in the uppe...

The study, published in the journal Science Advances in June 2019, shows that glaciers have been losing the equivalent of more than a verti...

China has established an advanced satellite tracking centre and astronomical observatory at Ngari in Tibet Autonomous Region, about 125 km ...

IMD’s prediction of rains and other weather events like cyclones Phailin and Hudhud had shown increasing levels of accuracy when Ramesh’s p...

CBI has named Pandey as an accused in an FIR along with several other senior officials and scientists of the organisation.

The researchers believe that some of this stress has shifted west, to an area stretching from the west of Pokhara in Nepal to the north of ...

Just when the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change thought it could put mistakes of the fourth assessment report behind it and carry ...