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A worker carries crates of apples through a high-density orchard in south Kashmir. Image by Faisal Bashir.

As Kashmir turns from paddy to apples, dependence on outside rice grows

Farzana Nisar 13 Oct 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in the Rupnarayan river. Image by Abdul Wakid.

Ganges river dolphins may synchronise their activity with time, tides and the moon

Sneha Mahale 12 Oct 2026
A woman wades through floodwaters to collect drinking water near her submerged house in Jorhat, Assam in August 2026. (AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)

A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Rupsy Khurana 8 Oct 2026

Forgotten vegetables could help make our diets more resilient

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 6 Oct 2026
An ibisbill tagged and fitted with satellite PTT. Image by Khursheed Ahmad.

Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom

Hirra Azmat 5 Oct 2026

The visiting grassland gardeners

Team Mongabay-India 30 Sep 2026
A tiger marks its scent by spraying urine on a tree in Kanha National Park. Image by David V. Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Odours offer new clues in monitoring big cats

Sneha Mahale 24 Sep 2026

Community-based mangrove monitoring should compliment satellite data [Commentary]

Utchimahali Mariappan 22 Sep 2026

Researchers rediscover an endemic plant after 180 years

Nabarun Guha 14 Sep 2026
A red-naped ibis in Udaipur. Image by Vijay Kumar Koli.

Red-naped ibises carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

Sneha Mahale 9 Sep 2026

The cliff-climbing goat

Team Mongabay-India 9 Sep 2026

Little is known about this flycatcher that migrates across the country every year

Hirra Azmat 7 Sep 2026

Reduced exposure to nature is linked to immune system diseases [Commentary]

Irfan Shakeer, Ayisha Farseena 3 Sep 2026
A sacred grove in Kasargod, and a plasticine caterpillar displaying bite marks from predators. Images by Bhavya Lakshmi.

Sacred groves show that size isn’t everything when it comes to ecological benefits

Sneha Mahale 1 Sep 2026
A 24-year-old well in Ambalappuzha left contaminated with plastic waste. Image by Anjana V.

Groundwater study flags localised heavy metal concerns in a coastal district

Anjana V. 31 Aug 2026
A juvenile leatherback turtle. Image by Ken Clifton via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

The largest living sea turtle

Team Mongabay-India 26 Aug 2026
A camera trap image of a wolf and pup. Image courtesy of Jharkhand Forest Department.

Study from India’s first wolf sanctuary reveals when livestock are most at risk

Sneha Mahale 25 Aug 2026
Residents sleep on the roof of their home near Versova beach to escape the indoor heat as humid conditions persist amid a delayed monsoon in Mumbai, Maharashtra in June this year. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Rising temperatures could intensify humid heat during India’s monsoon

Nivedhika Krishnan 20 Aug 2026
A greater hog badger caught on camera trap after dusk. Image courtesy of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

A hidden population of greater hog badgers spotted on camera traps

Deekshita Baruah 19 Aug 2026
A male peacock perches on the branch of a Machilus odoratissima tree. Sighted at 2,400 m in the Sirikhola-Gurdum village near Singalila National Park. Image by Mingma Tamang.

Increasing numbers of the Indian peafowl worry farmers [Commentary]

Aditya Pradhan 17 Aug 2026
A male Nagami mithun. Image by Harshit Kumar.

Genetic study of the Arunachali mithun flags declining breeding population

Barasha Das 13 Aug 2026
A tiger walks past a vehicle carrying tourists in Ranthambore National Park in 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi, File)

Tourism, human disturbance linked to higher stress in tigers

Sneha Mahale 11 Aug 2026
Dasharam Thakre, a grazer from Borghundi village in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. Thakre plays an important role in locating dead cattle and facilitating relief. Image by Ravin Mahle.

As herders quit, the skills that helped human-tiger coexistence, disappear [Commentary]

Varun Sharma 10 Aug 2026
A sloth bear in the Aravallis. Image by Utkarsh Prajapati.

Sloth bears are unlikely seed dispersers shaping forests

Sneha Mahale 6 Aug 2026
Smooth-coated otters. Image by Anirnoy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Whiskered swimmers with webbed feet

Team Mongabay-India 5 Aug 2026

Scientists identify new deep-sea shark species from India’s southwest coast

Ananya Singh 4 Aug 2026
A hoverfly spotted in Ladakh. Image courtesy of Geetha Iyer.

Flies are overlooked pollinators and farmers’ friends

Geetha Iyer 3 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
A diggi in Jamal. Image by Partik Kumar.

Rethinking irrigation through farm ponds [Commentary]

Partik Kumar, Parul 27 Jul 2026
Dholes feed on a deer in Karnataka. Representative image by T.A. Joseph via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

New DNA analysis reveals what dholes eat

Rajeev Tyagi 24 Jul 2026

Dolphins tread the waters between tourist boats and fishing nets

Sneha Mahale 21 Jul 2026

Important shark, ray habitats in India are still unprotected

Rupsy Khurana 20 Jul 2026

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