The unexpected appearance of highly venomous king cobras near Mount Everest signals a concerning ecological shift. Ten ...

Dehradun: A new bat species, the Himalayan long-tailed myotis (Myotis himalaicus), has been discovered in the high-altitude ...

The Pan-Himalayan biogeographic domain is a significant region for biodiversity conservation and climate resilience. It has both tropical and extratropical flora and holds ecological, cultural ...

The Chel snakehead fish, declared extinct since 1933, reappeared in a Himalayan river, highlighting the resilience of ...

Nepal’s Himalayan forests, rich in biodiversity and home to numerous keystone species, are under threat. Overharvesting of wild plants and fungi, climate change, illegal trade, and inequitable supply ...

Wheat production is threatened by a major fungal disease: yellow rust. Researchers at the University of Zurich have found ...

The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has granted “in-principle” approval to the Etalin Hydropower Project (3,097 MW) in ...

according to a study published March 14 in the peer-reviewed journal Biodiversity Data Journal. Amolops himalayanus, or the Himalayan frog, was first discovered in Darjeeling, India, in 1888 and ...

Nepal is a state party to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD). Nepal ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1993 and it came under enforcement on February 21, 1994. Article 26 of ...