Kashmir: Flood Fears
Relentless August rains battered Jammu and Kashmir, with cloudbursts, landslides and swelling rivers destroying homes, claiming 110 lives and reviving 2014 flood memories, exposing...
Kashmir’s Cloudburst Horror
The Chashoti cloudburst during the Machail Yatra killed 65, left dozens missing, and devastated the Sapphire-rich Padder Valley’s picturesque hamlet. Survivors recall terror, rescuers...
The Padder Cloudburst
A cloudburst in Sapphire-rich Padder has left at least 60 people dead and more than 100 injured, overwhelming rescue teams struggling against rain, landslides,...
Mapping the Mountains
After trekking across more than 100 high-altitude lakes and walking deep into Kashmir’s wilderness for over two decades, Mahmood A Shah has compiled a...
Kashmir: A Summer of Heat and Hunger
As Kashmir reels under one of its harshest summers in recent memory, its canals have run dry, crops are wilting, and livestock are perishing....
Kashmir: Forests in Flames
With the onset of spring, forests become increasingly vulnerable to fire. Whether sparked by human action or natural causes, forest fires are fast emerging...
Kashmir: The Vanishing Waters
Jammu and Kashmir faces an impending water crisis as glaciers vanish, water bodies shrink, and irrigation systems falter, endangering agriculture, ecosystems, and daily life....
Kashmir on the Brink of a Drought
Kashmir is grappling with a severe water crisis as climate change and a prolonged dry spell deplete springs, rivers, and snowfall, endangering agriculture, tourism,...
Kashmir: Undoing Doodhganga
Source of drinking water to nearly a quarter million population of Srinagar, the Doodganga rivulet has endured abusive illegal mining in the last six...
Kashmir: The Mulwarwan Inferno
In anticipation of the fast-approaching harsh winter, a devastating fire reduced around 80 homes in Mulwarwan to ashes. Syed Shadab Ali Gillani visited the...
Kashmir: My Flood Logbooks
In the end, the flood became more than just a natural disaster. It was a test, a trial by water, one that left scars...
Kashmir: Parched and Scorched
Adverse weather conditions have started impacting almost everything in Kashmir: health, energy, vegetables, fruits, rice, water supply and education. As an outcome of climate...
The Kashmir Summers
by MJ Aslam
Reti' kol is Kashmir’s Mosum e Garma, the hottest season of the year. The summer, as such, is associated everywhere with dog...
Thajiwas: A 1945 Climbing Guide
Thajiwas With huge crowds of tourists messing over the foot of the Thajiwas glacier in Sonamarg, it creates tragedies and impacts the eco-fragile area....
Gandbal’s Grief
As a boat capsized in the middle of Jhelum, swollen by incessant rains for many days, drowning six, the tragedy exposed many narratives in...
