A team of scientists has generated a soil loss map of Uttarakhand, a state in the northwest Himalayas that often makes headlines for devastating landslides and floods that sweep away houses and ...

The land-use, land-cover map of Uttarakhand prepared by Uttarakhand ... Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (IISWC) director Dr PK Mishra, Forest Survey of India assistant directors ...

Unscientific cutting of Himalayan soil by infrastructure projects is disrupting the fragile ecology of the region and causing disasters, warned a former official of the Geological Survey of India ...

Dar - the first village of the Darma valley in Uttarakhand's Dharchula sub-division ... further down making the upper layers of the soil even weaker, Mr Kumar said. "The village is situated ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand is set to become the first state in the country to assign monetary value to four of its critical natural resources -- air, water, forest and soil. The quality and quantity of ...