deformations in some sedimentary layers of the upper Shivaliks provide information on earth movements and can help predict earthquakes. These deformations occurs when the sedimentary rock is in the

in the first week of May, 200-odd Van Gujjar families started moving towards their summer homes in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. They had been stranded around Vikasnagar near Dehradun before a

Forest blaze guts hundreds of trees in Jammu hills

Van Gujjars lead the way in forest management by forming a voluntary protection force

Putting retired Indian army personnel to work on reforestation was a unique and effective idea. But the decade-old scheme has been soured by a dispute over financing

Soil conservationist P R Mishra's search for the source of silt in the Sukhna Lake took him to Sukhomajri, a village in the denuded Shivalik hills.