Three days after the BJP Sikkim unit wrote to PM Narendra Modi expressing its concerns over the recent nod given by a central ...

Over a year after a GLOF ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new ...

The Sikkim government had told the National Green Tribunal last year that a cloudburst had possibly preceded the glacial lake ...

Sikkim’s Teesta III dam rebuilding project gets the nod of the Environment Ministry’s Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC), but a ...

In October 2023, a multi-hazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalayas was triggered when earth and stones, which had accumulated ...

The flood devastated the Teesta Hydroelectric Project Stage-III (1200 MW), washed away the dam and flooded the underground ...

India faces severe climate impacts, including heatwaves, cyclones, and water-related disasters, requiring urgent adaptation ...

An international study has cautioned that the growing number of hydroelectric projects near glacier lakes in the Himalayas ...

An international study has cautioned that the growing number of hydroelectric projects near glacier lakes in the Himalayas increases risks of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF). The 2023 flood that ...

Across the approximately 35,000 sq km of the Ganga basin in Uttarakhand, an unsustainable level of human intervention has already made the region extremely vulnerable. Hydropower dams are a dangerous ...

Human-caused climate change likely increased the intense rainfall that flooded large parts of Pakistan, according to rapid ...

The ‘double engines’ seem to be pulling in opposite directions over environmental clearance for the Teesta-III project ...