The Dutch colonised Indonesian island of Java in 1596, and found that the coffee plant thrived in its fertile volcanic soil. Java had become the primary source of coffee for the world by 1720, and the ...
A Himalayan red fox was recently sighted at the Zojila Pass in Jammu and Kashmir, drawing attention to the rich and diverse wildlife found in the high-altitude region. The rare sighting was recorded ...
events like the 1985 Dig Tsho GLOF in Nepal and the 2012 Kedarnath disaster in India IIT Guwahati Research on Glacial Lakes: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have ...
During a recent holiday in Darjeeling, I had the pleasure of visiting one of the hill station’s most storied institutions—the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Founded in 1954 by Jawaharlal Nehru, ...