Aditi Tandon

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Rainfall, acreage influence community adoption of elephant mitigation measures, says study

Simrin Sirur 13 Oct 2025
Pallas's cat. The survey that captured the cat also shot images of the Brokpa herding community whose centuries-old pastoral traditions enable coexistence with wildlife. Image courtesy of WWF-India.

Survey finds wild cats at record heights

Nabarun Guha 7 Oct 2025

Looking at human-wildlife conflict through a data-first lens

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Oct 2025
Achan landfill. Image by Farzana Nisar.

The landfill that ate a wetland

Farzana Nisar 3 Oct 2025
Sonam Wangchuk addresses a gathering at a protest demanding statehood and other democratic rights for Ladakh in New Delhi on February 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Protests for Indigenous land rights turn deadly

Simrin Sirur 2 Oct 2025

Primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91 [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Oct 2025
A farmer shows his soybean crops damaged by the heavy rains. About 1.75 million (17.5 lakh) hectares of farmland across Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Parbhani, Dharashiv and Hingoli districts, has been damaged, according to the government data. Image by Yash Pawar.

Intense rains inundate farms in region known for droughts

Suraj Patke 2 Oct 2025
Deepor Beel is Guwahati’s major stormwater storage basin, and is facing stress from unregulated urban runoff. Image by Arnie via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Algal blooms choke a wetland, threatening biodiversity and livelihoods

Barasha Das 29 Sep 2025
A field team member consults with a local landowner while demarcating the boundaries of a potential restoration site in the hills. Image by Aditya Pradhan.

In search of degraded forests for restoration [Commentary]

Aditya Pradhan 29 Sep 2025
Bridgeoporus kanadii growing on a fir tree. Species in this genus are vital in the housekeeping of forests, by decomposing forest litter, particularly dead wood.

A new fungi species that’s larger than life

Divya Kilikar 24 Sep 2025

Dead snakes can still inject venom

Nabarun Guha 23 Sep 2025

Rare dhole sighting a reminder of unexpected biodiversity in Pune’s landscapes

Aditi Tandon 22 Sep 2025
A view of the grassland in Dachigam National Park. Image by Umer Ikhlaq.

Study reveals ecological dynamics of Himalayan grasslands

Arathi Menon 19 Sep 2025
Partially bleached coral reefs in the waters near Elephant beach in the Andaman islands. Image by Harvinder Chandigarh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India needs a marine litter policy as plastic waste chokes corals

T. V. Padma 19 Sep 2025
A variety of sharks and rays caught in a trawler. Image by Imran Samad.

India’s nearshore fisheries overlap with shark and ray habitats

Rupsy Khurana 18 Sep 2025

Elusive Eurasian otter spotted in Goa for the first time

Simrin Sirur 18 Sep 2025
Workers install metal mesh sheets on the banks of Bellundur Lake to prevent industrial pollution from spilling on to the road in Bangalore. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

External auditors to ‘supplement’ monitoring efforts of pollution authorities

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2025

India’s urban-rural air quality divide

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Sep 2025

The dark side of bright lights

Krishna Kakani 8 Sep 2025

Historical climate data helps predict renewable energy “drought” events

Nandhini Somasundaram 5 Sep 2025

Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025

On the trail of a lost relic [Commentary]

Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah 4 Sep 2025

A push for the bush frog

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 2025
A stray dog in Kolkata. In 2024 and 2025, the Centre issued advisories urging Urban Local Bodies to set up Animal Birth Control units and carry out large-scale sterilisation programmes. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0).

Street dogs in the spotlight as rabies eradication deadline comes closer

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2025

Roadkill study demonstrates urgent necessity for safeguards

Simrin Sirur 2 Sep 2025
A physically disabled man rests as commuters cross a waterlogged street in 2013 in Guwahati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Is India’s disaster preparedness inclusive enough?

Aisiri Amin 29 Aug 2025
A woman washes clothes near a well. Most village wells in Melghat contain murky water, which women use to wash clothes and utensils, leading to diseases and infections. Image by Abhijeet Tangde.

Despite dams and water schemes, tribal villages live with drought

Kiran Gite, Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Aug 2025
A man applies reflective paint to the roof of a house to cool the indoors in Ahmedabad. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A whole-system approach to cooling in a warming world [Commentary]

Prima Madan, Akash Goenka 25 Aug 2025
The East Asian free-tailed bat (Tadarida insignia) was recently recorded for the first time in India. Image by Rohit Chakravarty.

New bat species and first records uncovered in the Western Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 22 Aug 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2025

Rohini Balakrishnan on why (and how) we must listen to insects [Interview]

Kartik Chandramouli 15 Aug 2025
A bronze-winged jacana in Vembanad lake. Estimates say the lake is home to some 20,000 water fowls, otters and various varieties of fish. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

From choking backwaters to cleaner currents [Commentary]

C. J. Punnathara 13 Aug 2025

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