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A leopard cub sits on a tree in Aarey colony, which borders the south end of Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Leopard contraception trials aim at managing conflict

Nikhil Sreekandan 26 Mar 2026
Farmers collect foliage from a betta land. Image by Sharmila Vaidyanathan.

Betta lands await revival as areca nut cultivation undergoes change

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 20 Mar 2026
A farmer tends to his field in Mamte village, Mizoram. Image by Subrajit.

Rodents boom when bamboo blooms with no solution in sight

Barasha Das 19 Mar 2026
An Adivasi woman collects and ties kuda (Holarrhena pubescens) leaves from her friend's private forest in Jambhulwadi. Image by Nayantara Siruguri.

Adivasi women protect private forests as land conversions threaten livelihoods and culture [Commentary]

Nayantara Siruguri, Yamini Khedkar 5 Mar 2026
A sacred grove in Sikkim. Image by Amitabha Gupta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Sacred groves anchor traditional healing: study

Shradha Triveni 3 Mar 2026
A spotted owlet at IIHS Kengeri campus, Bengaluru. Image by Jagdish Krishnaswamy.

Study finds urban nature-based solutions overlook biodiversity

Aisiri Amin 2 Mar 2026
Bamboo crafts in the works in village courtyards. Image by Kulesh Bhandari.

Climate stress, market gap weaken traditional bamboo craft [Commentary]

Kulesh Bhandari 26 Feb 2026
Aenictus chittoorensis, one of the two new-to-science ant species discovered from the Eastern Ghats. Image by Bikash Sahoo.

Science delights in discovery of two new ant species

Arathi Menon 20 Feb 2026

What are colour aberrations in mammals? [Explainer]

Nikhil Sreekandan 19 Feb 2026
Rekha, in her 40s, and Ratnabai, 50, are sisters who live in a low-lying migrant neighbourhood in Bengaluru. They are domestic workers. High-rises have hemmed in their neighbourhood, and the nearby lake floods when it rains heavily. Image by Mahima Jain.

Urban climate risks push migrant workers to sweat without safety

Mahima Jain 10 Feb 2026
New shoots emerging from pruned alder trees. Image by Tarini Manchanda.

A combined agroforestry model shows sustainable ways to mitigate climate change

Tarini Manchanda 29 Jan 2026
Baiju P.S., a retired drawing teacher from Puthenvelikkara, reads rainfall data on the rain gauge installed in his home. He began measuring rainfall in May 2019. Image by Abraham Evangenile Joseph.

Community rain monitoring helps disaster preparedness

Arathi M.R. 20 Jan 2026

New research calls for sustained mental health support post disasters

Arathi Menon 16 Jan 2026
Seeds being sown by Kai Thota workers. Kai Thota's model ensures that women farmers get a consistent source of income, while ensuring healthy soil ecosystems and promoting local biodiversity. Image courtesy of Kai Thota.

Centring women in climate-resilient farming

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 15 Jan 2026
A farmer carries her radish harvest in Sikkim. Image by Srijana Sharma.

Market gaps reshape farming and economy in the mountains [Commentary]

Srijana Sharma 8 Jan 2026
A train station in Assam. Experts say that elephant–train collisions are not new to people in the Kampur subdivision in Nagaon. In 2016, four elephants were mowed down by a train, close to the spot of the recent accident. Representative image by Himanshum14 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jumbo deaths on tracks expose gaps in wildlife safety

Nabarun Guha 31 Dec 2025

Concerted efforts save an Indigenous donkey from oblivion

Azera Parveen Rahman 25 Dec 2025
A pear farm. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Local solution to farming woes? Grow a pear!

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 Dec 2025
One of the nine camera traps (seven of which were placed on the advise of Adi community members) yielded this image of a Chinese pangolin digging a burrow. Image by Chiging Pilia/NCF.

Indigenous knowledge to track and save the Chinese pangolin

Nikhil Sreekandan 17 Dec 2025
Image courtesy of Navara Eco Farm.

Custodian of Kerala’s medicinal rice heritage no more [Obituary]

Arathi Menon 12 Dec 2025
A field of Jeera Phool, a variety of black rice. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Tribal farmers trace tradition to survive climate variabilities

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 11 Dec 2025
The Sikkole river. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

The Irulas mourn a fading river

B. Vijayarani 26 Nov 2025
The single forest road that connects Cholanaikkans with the outside world. Image by Unnnikrishnan Avala.

Asia’s last cave dwellers vanishing in the shadows of change

K.A. Shaji 25 Nov 2025
A new pond being dug at Lalmarg pasture in Ganderbal district. Pastoralist communities in Kashmir work together with the nonprofit Himalayan Pastoral Trust to construct alpine ponds to store harvested rainwater in high-altitude pastures. Image by Shahid Sulaiman.

As springs dry up, pastoralists see potential in rainwater harvesting

Hirra Azmat 21 Nov 2025

DNA-based elephant census sets new baseline

Arathi Menon 24 Oct 2025
Mechanised farming equipmen such as drum seeders, mechanical weeders, and reapers reduce physical effort and time in the field. Image by IRRI.

Sunny days, zero returns, climate change leaves women farmers tired and broke

Mahima Jain 24 Oct 2025

The Green Credits Programme needs to move beyond its tree-centric approach [Commentary]

Gautam Aredath 23 Oct 2025
A saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus). Image by Rohit via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India’s snakes changing range, thanks to climate change

T. V. Padma 17 Oct 2025
A municipal solid waste collector at work in Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu. Image by P. Jeganathan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Waste work calls for better intervention, not just formalisation [Commentary]

Sushant Figueiredo, Rushalee Goswami 10 Oct 2025

No grass for gaur in India’s tiger reserve

Arathi Menon 8 Oct 2025
To counter the narrow perceptions of Ladakhi cuisine, chef Kunzes Angmo launched Artisanal Alchemy in 2017, a series of curated dining experiences that blend food with storytelling, hosted in Leh. Image by Kunzes Angmo.

Wild ways to flavour mountain life, economy

Hirra Azmat 3 Oct 2025

Habitat conservation stabilises macaque population: Study

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2025

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