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...
Riverbed Devastation
Government officials avoid implementing rules till the vested interests resort to unfair means and destroy Kashmir’s water bodies. Dr Raja Muzaffar Bhat details how...
Kashmir’s Bird Chronicler
Living with birds that co-exist in the surroundings of a South Kashmir wetland made Parvaiz Yousuf curious about avian life in Kashmir. Now he...
Kashmir’s Winter Warmth
Spending days in the sunshine and freezing in bone-chilling Chillai Kalan nights, the desert weather has pushed Kashmir to the edge. A ‘bald’ Gulmarg...
Dal Lake: A Monograph
This document authored by Prof Dr MRD Kundangar in the early 1990s for the Hydrobiology Laboratory of the SP College, which he was heading,...
The Mughal Road Markhor
Like Hangul, Kashmir is the home to Markhor, a near-threatened species. Officially they exist in the protected areas at Hirpora (Shopian) and Kazinag. The...
