Environment

  • Weeding Out The Willows From Wular

    By Athar Parvaiz/ thethirdpole.net Wular Lake in Kashmir, the largest flood basin in the region, has been choking due to sedimentation brought on by huge…

  • Bushfire Crisis: Australia To Cull 10,000 Camels Due To High Water Consumption

    In a bizarre move, Australia is carrying out a massive cull of camels from Wednesday, the reason being they drink too much water in the…

  • Cold Wave Returns To North India

    It has turned colder again in entire north India, including the capital Delhi. Rainfall was recorded in several areas of Delhi on Wednesday morning, after…

  • Australia Reels Under Worst Bushfires In Decades

    It has been four months since bushfires began in Australia but they are showing no signs of ending. According to a survey by the Ecology…

  • Delhi Temperature Drops to 1.7 degrees Celsius

    Entire north India, along with the national capital Delhi, is presently in the grip of severe cold.  The cold has shattered all previous records in…

  • Government Looks To Acquire Land In Kashmir

    By Athar Parvaiz/thethirdpole.net The central government has identified 15,000 acres in Kashmir – mostly next to rivers, streams and wetlands – for investors from outside…

  • Avalanches And Climate Change Will Bury Soldiers In Kashmir

    By Athar Parvaiz/thethirdpole.net The conflict in Kashmir is often seen through the lens of just the military, but natural disasters are increasingly playing a role,…

  • Kashmir’s Forests Face The Axe

    By Athar Parvaiz/ thethirdpole.net The former Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir was very busy in September and…

  • India ‘Walking The Talk’, Now Time For Developed World To Pay Up!

    India is one of only six countries on the path to meeting commitments under the Paris agreement to cut down on greenhouse gasses. This was shared…

  • Kashmir’s Famous Dal Lake Suffers During Political Uncertainty

    By Auqib Javeed, writing for thethirdpole.net Jammu & Kashmir’s second largest lake is on the verge of extinction. Different governments of the erstwhile state pumped millions…

  • 'India Now More Vulnerable To Climate Change & Risks’, Says Global Report

    India has moved higher up in the global vulnerability ranking of countries that have faced the risk and impact of climate change, resulting in loss…

  • A Decade Of Exceptional Global Heat

    A report released on Tuesday by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that the decade from 2010 to 2019 has been the hottest in history.…

  • A Decade Of Exceptional Global Heat

    The year 2019 concludes a decade of exceptional global heat, retreating ice and record sea levels driven by greenhouse gases from human activities

  • Victoria Falls On The Verge Of Drying Up

    Known locally as ‘Mosi Oa Tunya’ - The Smoke That Thunders, Victoria Falls, Africa’s biggest waterfall and one of the world’s wonders, is at risk…

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