Roopkund Lake in Uttarakhand is shrinking because of climate change. Known for its skeletal remains, the lake is losing size and depth each...

Parkachik Glacier is one of the largest glacier in the Suru River valley, which is a part of the Southern Zanskar Ranges, western Himalaya....

The JSS also held a day-long protest near the office of the Sub Treasury Joshimath on Monday where many people joined local residents to vo...

Official sources said the purpose of the advisory is not to deny information to the media but to avoid confusion because so many institutio...

The expert panel's field assessment report on Joshimath has pointed out that sediment-laden water, gushing out of an unknown underground so...

During a telephonic conversation with Dhami on Sunday, Prime Minister Modi enquired about the steps taken for the safety and rehabilitation...

The Geological Survey of India has been asked to examine the suitability of Koti Farm, Herb Institute and the horticulture department's lan...

Senior geophysicist of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology Ajay Paul said the Himalayas have come into existence as a result of a collisio...

"Human interventions into science and technology have deep-rooted impacts, and the current need is to become a more learning-based self-sus...

Kalachand Sain, Director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), said the glaciers where the incident occurred feed the Rishi G...

The study notes that the sequence of future Himalayan earthquakes could be similar to the great earthquakes that occurred in the twentieth ...

Arunachal Pradesh also borders Myanmar and Bhutan. USGS estimated there was a "low likelihood" of casualties and damage from the quake.

The rate of retreat of Gangotri glacier has slowed down to 11 metres since 2008 from the maximum of 35 metres recorded in 1974, according t...

The National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE) is one of the eight National missions which form the core of India’s fi...

While there is no way to predict an earthquake, sampling seismic data over past 150 years points to possibility of a huge quake over next f...

Unfortunately, this is the ugly truth of the Himalayas. The heap, which includes biodegradable plastic, can be found just four kilometres f...

Domestic wind power firm Suzlon Energy chief Tulsi Tanti, along with Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology's D P Dobhal, have made to a list...