Wahid Bhat

Himalayan medicinal plant species are threatened by climate change, new research shows that requires a review of current conservation strategies, including protected parks in mountain ranges.

A group of researchers from the IGE (Institute of Environmental Geosciences) and Dartmouth College have reviewed the first atlas that measured the movement and thickness of these ice giants to update the parameters of more than 250,000 mountain glaciers.

Flood-related disasters have increased 134% since 2000, compared to the previous two decades, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Central Asia "is nothing more than an endless desert" assured the well-known Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński. This famous reporter spoke of one of the least populated and driest regions on the planet

A study by biologists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the National Museum of Natural History in Paris ensures in a study published in 'Biological Reviews' that the sixth mass extinction of planet Earth

Pollution | Died due to pollution in cities; A recent study published in The Lancet Planetary Health magazine highlights, once again, the need to reduce

A new study concludes that 86% of the world's city dwellers (2.5 billion people) are exposed to annual average levels of fine particles that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline since 2005

Barely two days to live in 2021, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), presented a perfect example of how the combined impacts of natural climate variability and the climate crisis are happening right before our eyes

Himalayan glaciers are unusually melting 10 times faster than before, so the water crisis in many Asian countries, including India.

In a finding with implications for everything from climate change to the future of wildfires, researchers from the US and India have found an unexpected domino effect of COVID-19: a significant reduction in number of lightning strikes throughout world.