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Milking natural coagulants to fix dairy dirt

Aisiri Amin 6 Aug 2025

V.B. Ajayakumar: A relentless voice for human rights and climate justice [Obituary]

Arathi Menon 5 Aug 2025
The team aims to expand the Wildlife Watchers programme beyond Pune to other districts and habitats. Image courtesy of The Grasslands Trust.

Local and vocal, community watch bridges the gap between research and wildlife [Commentary]

Mihir Godbole, Prerana Sethiya 25 Jul 2025
A farmer shows a sample of his Khapli harvest. Image by special arrangement.

An old grain for bold gain

Hiren Kumar Bose 24 Jul 2025
Blood glucose testing being conducted in a clinic in Kolkata. Representative image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Overlooking climate change impacts may affect diabetes treatment in India

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 10 Jul 2025

A new biopark to expand urban green cover

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
A Russel's viper. Image by CHANDRANUJ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A single pill to fight the fang

Arathi Menon 4 Jul 2025
A Tetragonula iridipennis bee. Image by Ramesh Kunnappully via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New study identifies stingless bees fit for polyhouse pollination 

Arathi Menon 1 Jul 2025

Fire in the mountain sparks debate on jhum safety

Barasha Das 26 Jun 2025
Heavy rain and flooding in Hyderabad. Image by Rajib Ghosh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

District level mapping of climate extremes

Arathi Menon 25 Jun 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025
A container washed ashore in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from the ELSA-3 shipwreck. Some containers that washed to the coast were even seen catching fire in Kollam district. Image by John Bennet.

Shipwreck spills oil, plastic and legal loopholes

Max Martin 12 Jun 2025

As a treaty breaks, the Indus dolphin faces a different kind of battle [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 5 Jun 2025

When forests fall and peacocks cry [Commentary]

Sanjay Asthana 29 May 2025
Saplings of the genus Beilschmiedia. As many nurseries still struggle to supply adequate stocks of native plants, this database can help plan large-scale ecological restoration. Image by Vaishnavi Suresh.

Native plant germination database sows seeds of change

Sneha Mahale 21 May 2025

Protected on paper, forgotten by people, humpback dolphins struggle for survival

Priyamvada Kowshik 9 May 2025
Fishermen at work in Keni village in Ankola, Uttara Kannada, Karnataka. Image by Vaishnavi Suresh.

New port project sparks protests

Vaishnavi Suresh 1 May 2025
Mangroves restored by women in Tridibnagar. The solution to socioeconomic challenges to mangrove restoration may lie in decision science, which advocates for consideration of local knowledge and enhanced public awareness. Image by Mukut Biswas.

Decision science could lead action in mangrove restoration

Barasha Das 30 Apr 2025

Cast aside, small-scale fishers demand a framework for fair fisheries

Supriya Vohra 15 Apr 2025
A shrimp farmer shows his harvest in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. Representative image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

The conservation conundrum leaves shrimp farmers on edge

Aishwarya Mohanty 10 Apr 2025
A shore seine crew hauls in their catch. Image by Sajith Remady.

Small sardines signal a potential bumper catch

Max Martin 27 Mar 2025
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

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