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Most smaller teppas do not have motors and have to be rowed with paddles. Fishers find it challenging to overcome the strong waves. Image by Ishita Chigilli Palli.

Better catch pulls east coast fishers westwards

Ishita Chigilli Palli 14 Mar 2025

An olive ridley turtle in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. Image by Anirnoy via Wikimedia Commons

Local participation key in solving turtle nesting riddle

Max Martin 26 Feb 2025

The spice star that vies for a market comeback

Barasha Das 20 Feb 2025

Experimenting with artificial reefs to protect marine ecosystems

Aishwarya Mohanty 12 Feb 2025

adiya women paddy edible greens

Reviving forgotten wild edibles from paddy fields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 Feb 2025

Fisherwomen ride the rough waves while India’s blue economy blooms

Priyamvada Kowshik 3 Feb 2025

[Explainer] What are fish refugia?

Kundan Pandey 24 Jan 2025

Syringodium seagrass

Seagrass mapping helps identify restoration potential

Phalguni Ranjan 24 Jan 2025

traditional khoti fishing west bengal

Policy gaps are failing traditional fishing communities

Kundan Pandey 23 Jan 2025

Audit report flags issues with coastal projects

Simrin Sirur 17 Jan 2025

Indigenous turtle-safe fishing devices help India tackle U.S. shrimp ban

Nikhil Sreekandan 17 Jan 2025

taxonomist jini jacob documents meiofauna nematodes

Indian taxonomist forays into the uncharted waters of meiofauna

Nikhil Sreekandan 16 Jan 2025

women in buxa tiger reserve coexist with wildlife

Social sciences shape effective conservation strategies

Arathi Menon 9 Jan 2025

Science welcomed multiple new species in 2024

Arathi Menon 30 Dec 2024

Hyper-local climate predictions to protect Kerala from extreme weather events

K.A. Shaji 6 Dec 2024

No-fuss approach to food helps golden jackals thrive

Arathi Menon 29 Nov 2024

Living in fear as tigers leave the woods for the hood

Arathi Menon 27 Nov 2024

With local support, a tributary comes to life

Nikhil Sreekandan 13 Nov 2024

Rooted in tradition, nature-based architecture bridges generations

Barasha Das 1 Nov 2024

Genomes map elephant populations, history

Arathi Menon 1 Nov 2024

Dissonance over DSI dominates biodiversity COP

T. V. Padma 30 Oct 2024

wild elephants kerala

Climate change, habitat loss drive elephants to look for newer pastures

Laasya Shekhar 14 Oct 2024

[Commentary] Conserving old ways in a new world

Arathi Menon 2 Oct 2024

Operation Bhediya reveals gaps in human-wildlife conflict mitigation

Arathi Menon, Nikhil Sahu 13 Sep 2024

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Agriculture has a plastic problem and it’s threatening the future of food

Priyamvada Kowshik 6 Sep 2024

A fisher haven that harbours death

Saritha S. Balan 4 Sep 2024

Uniting traditional wisdom with modern science, barefoot ecologists record climate impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 14 Aug 2024

Trust, cost go greater depths to sustain unscientific water divining practice

Simrin Sirur 12 Aug 2024

Kadaknath chicken at a government farm in Jhabua. Its color is black—every part of it, including its blood. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra / Mongabay.

A fowl that travelled from forests to farms

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Jul 2024

[Commentary] Living territory of Lachung

Shrishtee Bajpai 16 Jul 2024

sunnyjosef, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

New study puts spotlight on neglected mammal, bird pollinators

T. V. Padma 8 Jul 2024

Mukerjee, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Eastern Ghats debuts in new landslide susceptibility map

Divya Kilikar 26 Jun 2024

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A Malabar pied hornbill, one among the threatened fauna one can spot in Silent Valley National Park. Image by N A Nazeer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).