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Orchards are shifting upland as winters shorten and glaciers retreat. Himachal Pradesh, India The hills of Thanedar-Kotgarh lie four hours from Shimla, the capital of this Himalayan state in northwest India . This is where Samuel Evans Stokes, a Quaker missionary...

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has said the state government would seek early release of Rs.277 crore for afforestation, an official statement Wednesday said...Presiding over a review meeting of the state forest department here Tuesday, the chief minister had...

Green activists have long protested the hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh that have been gobbling up forests and drying up water channels. Now a report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) too backs the claims of the greens.

Kullu district and some 250 km from state capital Shimla, since it was shortlisted for World Heritage status in 2009...India currently has six natural sites in the Unesco World Heritage list, including the Sundarbans in West Bengal...Thus, the total area...

Himachal Pradesh's forest department is engaged in a massive project to remove lantana, an exotic flowering shrub that threatens the state's biodiversity, and re-greening the hills with fast-growing native flora, foresters said.