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Ecology

This section is a window to the happenings and challenges that Jammu and Kashmir’s fragile ecology faces. It tackles water bodies, forests, flora and fauna, wild life, weather and impact of developmental activities on mother nature.

Taming The Jhelum

Barring public thinking and rooftop shouting on flood management, nothing much has happened to address the concerns of the Jhelum and the people living...

Plastic Millionaires

The ever-increasing consumption is massively throwing heaps of plastic, iron and paper packaging almost everywhere in urban and peripheral Kashmir. It is a huge...

A Clean Plan

A pilot project launched in Budgam with an aim to tackle household waste at source ended up achieving eighty percent segregation in three months....

Feel The Change

by Khursheed Wani On January 18, a 24-year-old skier from Sweden Daniel Naat fell into a deep gorge in Gulmarg heights and died. When a...

Autumn Angling

With harvest over and the Lidder reporting low discharge, hundreds of youth report to the river and take tons of fish home, for most...

The Water Hunger

With modest rains and snow emerging a routine as glaciers disappear, Kashmir is already facing a serious groundwater crisis, reports Muhammad Younis Making river water...

Aquatic Concertina

Protesting boys might be happy that they successfully pull the concertina barricades barring them from crossing the bridges and throw it into the river....

Apple Effect

As the Kashmir periphery is witnessing a literal mass conversion of rice fields into apple orchards, the changes manifesting itself by serious ecological tensions...

Into the Marsh

Hundreds of villagers in Dal lake took hard cash and moved out to live far away from the water body. But in Rakhi Aarath,...

Kashmir: Global Warming

by Jalal Ud Din Baba Since decade’s human kind on the planet earth has pursued unending war with Mother Nature, in particular with earth and...

Self Flagellation

While flagging key ecological concerns in Kashmir peripheral eco system, Chief Minister talked bluntly about the massive corruption in the state’ rural development department....

A Dry Kolhai

One of the major glaciers, the Kolhai in the Pahalgam Mountains is fast receding. While the blame goes to climatic change, nobody in the...

Explaining Traeth

When the deadly dark clouds burst into bangs, these actually are big bangs for some people because they have to recreate their lives later,...

A trip to Kousarnag

By Danish Ahmad Kousarnag- located roughly 141 miles from Srinagar, is considered one of the attractive sites. Every year, thousands of trekkers make the grueling...

Budshah’s Nallai Mar  

For ages, rulers in Kashmir have constructed canals to improve life and production. But there is no ruler who could come even closer to...