Tag: Climate Change

This year’s devastating Himachal floods have uncovered a massive timber smuggling racket, with visuals of the Ravi River in Chamba choked by felled logs exposing rampant illegal logging. Experts warn that collusion between forest mafias and unchecked development has stripped hillsides, worsening landslides and floods. With 156 lives lost and over 820 roads blocked, the disaster highlights how deforestation and climate change are pushing Himachal toward ecological collapse. Environmentalists demand urgent action, strict enforcement, and reforestation to prevent the state from “vanishing in thin air.”

In a landmark Indo-US space collaboration, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite was launched successfully aboard the GSLV-F16 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. Designed to track Earth’s environmental changes with centimeter-level precision, the mission is expected to revolutionize global climate and disaster monitoring, marking a major stride in Earth science and international cooperation.

In observance of International Biodiversity Day, the Department of Geography at Govt. Kamla Devi Rathi Women's Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, organized a special awareness lecture. Head of Department Dr. Krishna Kumar Dwivedi emphasized that biodiversity plays a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and human survival. He called upon society to recognize biodiversity conservation as a collective moral responsibility amid growing environmental threats.