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India’s strategic community has long been preoccupied with conventional military threats, but the security implications of environmental change remain underexplored. This paper examines the depletion of natural springs...

Much evidence to link youth expeditions and gap years with a range of outcome benefits for participants exists, but to date, there have been relatively few insights into what exactly brings about these reported outcomes....

This article highlights a novel photographic record of the endemic species, Red-naped Ibis of the Indian sub-continent from Sikkim Himalaya. We documented the bird during a field visit on 27 July 2024, in Jorethang, Sout...

Abstract Eastern Himalayan Region (EHR), where rice is an important staple crop, developing drought stress tolerant varieties is crucial for improving yield and stability in variable climates. Genotype-by-environment (GE...

Abstract This study re-examines the provenance of the Miocene Murree Formation through detailed analysis of field exposures and sedimentary trends. Previous interpretations have commonly attributed the primary sediment s...

Abstract To explore spatio-temporal dynamics and source fingerprinting of carbonaceous aerosols (CAs), a systematic year-long study was conducted in the urban environment of Jammu region, North-Western Himalayas. PM2.5 s...

Abstract Soil microbes are essential for ecosystem functioning, affecting soil health and fertility. The microbial diversity present in soil is influenced by diverse land-use practices and environmental conditions; howev...

Urbanisation, land use changes and tourism in disaster-prone high mountain areas or riskscapes have emerged as important research topics and major planning challenges at a global scale with the Himalayan region as a hots...

Altitudinal gradients are frequently used to study Lepidoptera diversity. The study site, situated in the Munsiari Subdivision of Pithoragarh District, Kumaun Himalaya, was divided into transects along the altitudinal gr...

Understanding how species that share the same habitat coexist can reveal how niche segregation helps reduce competition and structure communities. This study examines foraging niche segregation among six woodpecker speci...

Abstract Background Signal divergence and sensory preferences may cause reproductive isolation and eventually speciation between animal populations. These patterns are particularly well known in systems with acoustic or ...

Abstract Background Landslides are one of the most frequent and damaging disasters in the Nepal Himalaya region, triggered primarily by intense rainfall events. With the increasing impacts of climate change, extreme prec...

Abstract The Indian Western Himalayan (IWH) region experiences persistent threats from natural hazards mainly influenced by land use and land cover (LULC) changes resulting from rapid urbanization. The present study aims...

Magic of Wonders and Emotional Connectivity are two different characteristics in the field of Ecocriticism. For Eco-critics, a world is a narrow space, not a wide space. They see everything through the lens of science an...

Vultures are keystone species in maintaining ecosystem health, but their populations have experienced catastrophic declines across the Indian subcontinent in last three decades. The study was conducted in the Ranikhet re...

The Himalayan Caprine Budorcas taxicolor taxicolor, generally known as the Mishmi Takin, is a globally ‘Vulnerable’ species per IUCN Red List and categorised under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. I...

The present finding reports the first national record of Neorina hilda Westwood, 1851 (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), commonly known as the Yellow Owl Butterfly from Nepal. A single adult individual was observed and photograph...

The paper divulges details on the addition of Chitoria sordida sordida (Moore, 1866) (Nymphalidae: Apaturinae) to lepidopteran fauna checklist of Arunachal Pradesh, India. The manuscript highlights particulars of the fir...

The Blyth’s Tragopan Tragopan blythii is a medium-sized pheasant endemic to the eastern Himalaya and is classified as ‘Vulnerable’. This species thrives in dense forest ecosystems at higher altitudes. Species distr...

Abstract A taxonomic revision of the genus Duthiea Hack. in India recognizes two species: D. brachypodium and D. bromoides. D. brachypodium is newly recorded here from the Indian Eastern Himalaya (IEH), collected from Si...

Rhyothemis plutonia Selys, 1883 was recorded from Dhela, Uttarakhand, representing the first confirmed occurrence of the species in the state and western Himalaya. This finding extends the known distribution of the speci...

Garcinia pedunculata Roxb. ex Buch.-Ham. is reported here for the first time in Bhutan, specifically from Zhemgang District. The species holds significant local value; its fruits are consumed as food and used as dye mo...

Taxonomic survey has been conducted on the hymenopterans of Jammu region. A total of 165 samples were collected from different geographical areas of Jammu region and are systematically arranged in their respective famili...

           Ecocriticism, a literary counterpart to the environmental movement that emerged in the late twentieth century, provides a disciplinary lens for interrogating the representations of nature in cultural...