Kashmir’s Herbal Decline
Kashmir’s medicinal plants are retreating to higher altitudes as climate change alters seasons, threatening biodiversity, traditional healthcare, and centuries of local knowledge, reports Afreen...
Kashmir’s NH-701A Dilemma
Proposed NH-701A promises connectivity across Kashmir but raises serious ecological, cultural and governance concerns amid fragile Himalayan terrain and exemptions, writes M Saleem Beg
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Kashmir’s Brown Trout Returns
Kashmir’s brown trout revival blends science, ecology and economics, settling extinction debates while reshaping angling tourism and cold-water conservation efforts, reports Syed Shadab Ali...
Kashmir’s Forgotten Burza
Kashmir’s white birch, once integral to the Valley’s traditions of writing, architecture, culture, and medicine, has largely vanished from the plains, prompting concerns over...
Kashmir’s Hangul Guardians
A third-generation wildlife conservationalist from Kashmir, Kashif Farooq Bhat, blends family legacy with scientific training to protect the critically endangered Hangul, confronting habitat loss,...
‘In India, Yearly Plastic Consumption Has Reached 11 Kgs Per Person’
Kamal Jit Ghai, the former Director of the Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology, explains how plastics, an unavoidable requirement of the present...
Kashmir’s Mining Mess
In Kashmir, the vanishing of rivers, streams, and springs tells a larger story, one of greed unchecked, authority compromised, and ecology undone. From Budgam...
Kashmir: 2025 Floods Data
Even though official agencies are still busy tracing the missing and surveying the impacted communities, the latest official data offers some idea of the...
Kashmir: Disaster Reporting
Jammu and Kashmir lost more than 150 people in the last three weeks to weather conditions, and the arterial Jammu-Srinagar highway is still closed. Syed...
Kashmir: The Deluge Debate
The Jhelum surged past its danger marks again in September 2025, reviving memories of 2014. Frequent floods, unchecked mining, weak infrastructure, and climate extremes...
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....
