While India and Bhutan has a forest cover of 33 percent and 60 percent, only five percent land in Pakistan is covered by forests
Climate Change: World’s largest ice rink won’t open this winter
Historic Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Canada to remain closed due to lack of ice
Nepal almost doubled its country’s forests in three decades
While a World Bank report in 1979 had warned that the country would lose forests on its hills by 1990, the landmark legislation of 1993 that handed over the national forests to community forest groups is credited for the turn-around
Kashmir’s ‘yellow snowfall’ attributed to dusty winds from Pak, Afghanistan
The Himalayan region of Kashmir in India witnessed yellowish snowfall on Thursday night that experts say because of the dust carried by the winds
Two Polish skiers killed in Kashmir Himalayas
Snow avalanche hit upper reaches of Gulmarg ski resort in India’s Kashmir region
‘Non-native invasive plant species are spreading to mountains including the Himalayas’
The study published in ‘Nature – Ecology & Evolution’ suggest that native species residing at higher altitudes are under threat from the non-native invasive species as they are now making their habitats within the habitats occupied by natives