By Naveed Qazi In a high-stakes push to turn toxic agricultural smoke into sovereign fuel, India…
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Vanishing Ice: Kashmir’s Rapidly Receding Glaciers Signal an Imminent Ecological and Water Crisis
By Naveed Qazi Over the years, scientific research across the Kashmir Valley reveals that glaciers are…
Predicting the Third Pole: How a New Weather Model Cracks the Code of Himalayan Snow and Rain
Weather forecasting in the Hindu Kush Himalayas—a rugged, ice-bound region known as the “World’s Third Pole”…
Kashmir’s Agricultural Renaissance: From Forgotten Grains to a Tech-Driven Future
By Naveed Qazi In the snow-bound reaches of the Gurez Valley, a quiet revolution is unfolding…
Sustainable Cities: What India Can Learn from the World’s Greenest Urban Success Stories
By Naveed Qazi In our world, more than half of the population now lives in cities,…
India’s Sugar Export Crunch: Ethanol Push, El Niño and Climate Risks Reshape Global Sugar Trade
By Naveed Qazi As rising ethanol demand and El Nino conditions affect India’s sugarcane industry, the…
Himalayan Alarm: Jammu & Kashmir’s High Peaks Have Heated Up by Nearly 1°C in Just 20 Years
High-Altitude Warming in Jammu & Kashmir Raises Fresh Climate Concerns By Chandrani Sinha A landmark study…
Why Kashmir’s Agriculture is in Crisis: Urbanisation, Climate Change, and Decline of Farmland
By Naveed Qazi Over the past few decades, a growing scholarship has emerged from Kashmir valley,…
Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say
By ALEXA ST. JOHN The Associated Press The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would…
The Environmental Cost of AI: Data Centres, Resource Depletion, and the Path to Sustainable Governance
By Naveed Qazi As one of the most influential technologies of our era, artificial intelligence is…