As the world struggles to contain plastic pollution, eco-friendly alternatives to plastics have garnered attention in recent years. One example: Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a naturally occurring bio-based polymer, have been touted…
In the right conditions, a liana — a long-stemmed, woody vine — can opportunistically ride up a tree and smother it as it climbs to the forest canopy. The plant…
The mighty ape god Hanuman marshalled an army to build a bridge linking northern Sri Lanka’s Mannar region with Tamil Nadu’s Rameswaram, according to the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Centuries…
Last September, in the middle of an intense drought, 154 endangered Amazon river dolphins were found dead in Brazilian Amazon's Lake Tefé. This was a grim reminder to conservationists about…
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications has traced the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals, using phylogenetic analysis, a method that traces evolutionary relationships among biological…
Lion numbers across their habitats the world over have decreased by three-quarters in the last 50 years. Today, only 20,000 to 40,000 of the majestic cats survive in the wild.…
Along Tibet's border in Nepal, where tall ancient structures stand in the arid landscape, is the isolated kingdom of Lo Manthang where tourists have been allowed only since the late…
Community tropical forest management is a predictor of multiple positive outcomes, both socially and for the environment, a recent peer-reviewed study found. According to the paper, published in Nature Climate…
In 2009, with hopes to curb the spread of the vibrant flowering shrub lantana (Lantana camara), one of the world’s worst invasive species, the NGO Shola Trust started a long…
In the Kumaon mountains in the central sector of Uttarakhand's Himalayas, a team of scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Japan’s Niigata University have unearthed water droplets…
When her mother-in-law started taking her along on forest patrols, Pramila Pradhan, 51, began embracing thengapalli, a form of forest stewardship. In Kodalpalli, Odisha, thenga means stick, and palli means…
Three reasearchers in Nepal, Hiru Lal Dangaura, Vikram Tiwari and Subam Chaudhary, were conducting a routine check on a vulture colony in the western plains of Nepal in December 2022.…
Only five years ago, Bangladesh's conservation community was deeply concerned about the tiger's shrinking population in the Sundarban mangrove habitat. In a happy turn of events, however, the Sundarbans, which…
In Nepal, the lower mountains are covered by chir pine trees (Pinus roxburghii). On a bright morning, a pair of white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) can be seen building a nest…
With more than 70 people and 80 elephants dying every year in the state, Assam is known for its very high record of human-elephant conflict incidences. The dwindling natural habitat…
The UN takes pride in being "almost entirely climate neutral," but experts beg to differ on that claim. In a year-long investigation, The New Humanitarian and Mongabay found that the…
There were once 188 orchid species known to science found in Bangladesh. In the last few decades, 32 of them went extinct, according to a 2020 study. Theocostele alata, Anoectochilus roxburghii,…
On June 26, in Nepal's Chitwan National Park, a male gharial, one of the world's most endangered crocodilians, was found dead. A fishing net was found wrapped around the animal's…
In 2017, a camera installed on the fringes of Corbett Tiger Reserve in northern India photographed an unsuspecting woman. The local forest staff had set up the device discreetly to…
Authorities have thought of a new solution to tackle human-tiger conflicts in the Sundarbans: installing nylon fencing. With this, they aim to protect both the communities and the endangered big…