Vanishing Waters
Farmers are fast switching over to cash crops, abandoning traditional rice cultivation. But those who still grow the paddy lack the fundamental requirement –...
A Carry Bag
The devastation to Kashmir’s fragile eco-system can reduce hugely if there is an alternative to the abundant plastic carry-bag, reports Insha Shirazi
People hawking Kashmir...
O’ Pir Panchal
After remaining invincible and impregnable for centuries, the mighty Pir Panchal is witnessing enormous developmental activity for a new expressway, a challenging railway line...
Understanding Karnah
In news for the cross border shelling, more than seventy thousand people live in Karnah, which has historically remained a gateway to Sharda, Mahmood Ahmad writes
Sandwiched...
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: 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...
1885 Earthquake
Kashmir owes a lot to the British doctor duo, the Neve Brothers, the missionaries who were running the Mission Hospital. Here is the first-hand...
Wonder Spring?
A Facebook video showing a spring in a non-descript south Kashmir village following kid’s commands to make its water rise and fall sent hoards...
The Baba Demb Dump
Neglected by the government and society, the erstwhile transportation pivot of the city, the Baba Demb lagoon has emerged as a new nuisance for...
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...
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,...
An Off-Road Debate
In the last few years, sections within the younger lot take their super-duper vehicles on tracks in the fragile ecological space of Kashmir and...
Why Government Does Not Care About Its Own Environment Policy?
by Athar Parvaiz
After dithering over it for years, the Department of Forest, Ecology, and Environment uploaded the draft of State Environment Policy (SEP) 2018...
Sher Bagh, Anantnag
Once upon a time, the garden was an address for peak summer bathing, swimming and prayers. Now, Sher Bagh is a place for a...
‘Western Disturbances Run Riot with Kashmir’
Predicting a serious crisis in the near future, VC IUST, Prof Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, an earth scientist, tells Humaira Nabi that a huge surge...
