Kashmir: Feasting Fresh Catch
A family-run trout farm in South Kashmir lets visitors catch, clean and grill their own rainbow trout, turning a fisheries venture into a rural...
The Riverbed Fish Burials
Mechanised riverbed mining is dismantling the biological processes that sustain Kashmir's fish populations, disrupting spawning, breeding and habitat at a physiological level. The vanishing...
Kashmir: Deadly Monsoons
Cloudbursts and flash floods tore through Jammu and Kashmir over three days, killing more than 28 people, sweeping away homes and vehicles, and forcing...
Kashmir: Waste Promises
Jammu and Kashmir’s circular economy policy sets ambitious targets for 2035, but the gap between vision and ground reality reveals a region still drowning...
Kashmir: Fish For Mutton
As a mutton trade standoff threatens supplies ahead of the wedding season, Kashmir's traditional staple, fish, could be staging a comeback, reports Babra Wani
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Kashmir’s Poisoned Harvest
A new study across Kashmir’s four water bodies finds water chestnut fruits carrying cadmium levels 5.5 times above safe limits, with Dal Lake recording...
Kashmir: Anchar In A Lake
A once-thriving wetland at the heart of Srinagar's ecosystem is dying quietly, suffocated by sewage, encroachment, and decades of collective neglect, reports Afreen Ashraf
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Kashmir: A Fisherman’s Tale
At the peak of mutiny in 1857, when Maharaja Gulab Singh’s death turned fish into forbidden fruit, Srinagar paid a savage price for the...
The Kaeshir Gaad Retreats
Kashmir's endemic freshwater fish, once abundant across the Dal, the Wular and the Jhelum, are disappearing, not into extinction, scientists say, but into a...
Kashmir’s Vanishing Lakes
When nearly three-quarters of Jammu and Kashmir's lakes disappear or shrink, a region's ecological identity, and its people's safety and livelihood, hang in the...
Kashmir: Springs of Silent Death
From Ganderbal to Shopian, Kashmir's sacred springs and trout canals are witnessing mass fish die-offs, a crisis born of blocked outlets, sewage, algal blooms,...
Kashmir’s Rising Waters
Seemingly, Kashmir is rewriting its coldwater fisheries story, from subsistence catch to a technology-driven, export-ready industry, reports Mir Rameez Raja
Kashmir has always been trout...
Kashmir: Wullar’s Dying Waters?
Asia's largest freshwater lake is shrinking, and so is the world of the thousands who depend on it, reports Asrar Syeed
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Sukhnag Sighs
Legal proceedings before the National Green Tribunal, triggered by three years of illegal riverbed mining, could force restoration of Kashmir's iconic Sukhnag trout stream...
Kashmir: An April In February
Kashmir is witnessing unprecedented February warmth in 2026, with temperatures 9–10°C above normal, early tree blooming, drought, reduced snowfall, and rising concerns for apple...
