Seabuckthorn, a plant with numerous medicinal properties, grows wild in India. Rural communities are the losers

Even flash floods cannot refresh the authorities' understanding of the dynamic and fragile ecosystem of the Himalaya

The Supreme Court has prevented the Himachal Pradesh government from implementing it's decision to permit the cutting of trees until further notice. Taking serious note of the move, the court has

the fund-starved Himachal Pradesh

The people of Himachal Pradesh and the adjoining states have finally got some respite from the weed, Ageratum conyzoids , locally known as "neela phulnu', which had

Floods claim hundreds of lives across India besides causing large scale destruction, Bihar is the worst affected

A recent decision by the Himachal Pradesh government may not be good news to the endangered Himalayan yew (Taxus baccata). The government has allowed collection and export of yew, which is in great

Himachal Pradesh chief minister has broken all bureaucratic shackles and initiated eco friendly programmes in the state

one-third of the sheesham trees, Dalbergia , have been damaged by a fungi attack in the hills of Himachal Pradesh. The fungi, genoderma lucidum and fusarium oxyssporum,