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Frog discovered in the Eastern Ghats also found in the Western Ghats, more than 1000 km away

Aathira Perinchery 27 Oct 2020
Crested black macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Unique primate habitat in Indonesia under threat from palm oil plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020

Cultural beliefs protect snakes in the dwindling sacred groves of southwestern India

Neha Jain 26 Oct 2020
A fisherman on a boat with fishing nets near Diamond Harbor in Sundarbans.Photo by Namrata Acharya.

Your Environment This Week: Mining versus bustards, canals for mangroves and camel milk

Mongabay.com 23 Oct 2020

After early success, Kerala stumbles in containing the COVID-19 pandemic

K.A. Shaji 23 Oct 2020

Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh

Namrata Acharya 23 Oct 2020
Thoothukudi Thermal power, Thoothukudi. Photo by Hassan Afridhi/Unsplash.

Even with coal, strict air pollution control can prevent early deaths

Sahana Ghosh 22 Oct 2020

Multiple phases of mining in Ballari take a toll on its people and the environment

Tejas Dayananda Sagar 22 Oct 2020

Sankar and his community dig canals to save Muthupet’s mangroves

Ankita Sengupta 21 Oct 2020

Camel milk inspires hope for herders

Manu Moudgil 21 Oct 2020

Illegal industrial and mining activities continue in great Indian bustard’s habitat in Maharashtra

Himanshu Nitnaware 20 Oct 2020

[Commentary] Access and Benefit Sharing provision of CBD can stifle mitigation of global pandemics

Prathapan K. Divakaran, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan 20 Oct 2020
SHG members tending to the Herbal garden

A traditional healer combines ancient wisdom and training for healing and livelihood

Azera Parveen Rahman 19 Oct 2020
Flooded oil palm plantation. Image courtesy of Clara Zemp

Worsening floods in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island linked to oil palm plantations

Basten Gokkon 19 Oct 2020

Your Environment This Week: Elongated tortoise, exotic tilapia and Rahul Ram on music & environment

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2020

[Video] In conversation with Rahul Ram: Exploring the confluence of music and environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Oct 2020
A farmer burning paddy stubble in Bucho Mandi in Bathinda district

Smoke from stubble burning in Punjab may aggravate COVID-19 symptoms

Vivek Gupta 16 Oct 2020
Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) made it to of the “100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species”.

[Commentary] Tilapia: How an invasive fish came to dominate our ecology, food and psyche

Aaron Savio Lobo 15 Oct 2020

Katte and Kunte: The lesser known waterbodies of Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao 15 Oct 2020

The elongated tortoise battles habitat loss and fire in its leaf litter home

Roopak Goswami 14 Oct 2020