Vegetation is expanding at high altitudes in the Himalayas, including in the Everest region, new research has shown. The researchers found plant life in areas where vegetation was not previously ...

Nepal’s Himalayan forests, rich in biodiversity and home to numerous keystone species, are under threat. Overharvesting of wild plants and fungi, climate change, illegal trade, and inequitable supply ...

Explore how the women of Badiyakot, Uttarakhand are transforming their village through the cultivation of kutki, a medicinal ...

As he watches his neighbours watering the tens of thousands of tree saplings they planted in their Himalayan village a few months ago ... Design at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the ...

Himalayan rivers were in place before the mountains ... The entire region boasts a richness and variety of plants and wildlife that are perhaps unequalled in the world. Botanists have estimated ...

The 'Eastern Himalayan Triangle' includes both uplands and lowlands. The region is the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots connecting India and China across Myanmar/Burma, Bangladesh ...

China has reacted angrily to reports of India expediting the construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Himalayan region ... The proposed power plants are part of India’s push to ...

Himalayan balsam is considered an invasive non-native plant and is listed on Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, meaning it is an offence to plant or cause it to grow in the wild.