Himalaya
Count your climate losses
How recent reports on climate change weigh the economic versus the human cost of the ecological crisis.
The Editors | Jul 30, 2021
The caravan of Sanuman
Translated excerpt from Dor Bahadur Bista’s Nepali-language novel ‘Sotala’.
Dor Bahadur Bista. Translated by Amish Raj Mulmi | Jul 16, 2021
In the presence of the gods
Shaligram pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalaya.
Don Messerschmidt | Jul 06, 2021
Chipko to climate change
In Uttarakhand, environmentalists call for disaster governance that supports local communities.
Harsh Dobhal and Rohan D’Souza | May 21, 2021
Change and dispossession
Lack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin.
Slok Gyawali | Aug 12, 2016
A Himalayan warning
The government has not heeded the lessons from the 2013 Uttarakhand floods.
Himanshu Thakkar | Aug 31, 2015
Sikkim’s ecological fragments
The significant environmental and livelihood benefits of forest fragments are recognised by people but not in policy.
Urbashi Pradhan | Dec 08, 2014
Eastern Himalaya: cradle of ethnogenesis
Language, genes and the peopling of Asia.
George van Driem | Aug 05, 2014
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