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A caracal in Ramgarh area of Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. Image by Sumer Singh Bhati and Pankaj Bishnoi.

Crime against caracal sparks a census project for the cat

Madhav Sharma 10 Jun 2026
Researchers at Rulung Glacier in Ladakh. Image by Purushottam Kumar Garg.

Climate-driven glacier melt could reshape water quality downstream

Hirra Azmat 9 Jun 2026
A truck transporting goods in Uttar Pradesh. Representative image by Shantum Singh via Pexels.

New scheme incentivises trucks, buses for meeting emissions standards

Simrin Sirur 8 Jun 2026
Nomadic shepherds guide their flock across the rugged Himalayan terrain along the Mughal Road near Pir Panjal Pass. Image by Faisal Bashir.

Unseasonal snowfall blocks the path for migratory pastoralists

Farzana Nisar 4 Jun 2026

Why India’s tree-planting programmes are falling short

Aisiri Amin 3 Jun 2026
Tendu leaves being dried after harvest. Representative image by Subodhkiran via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India releases report on access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 29 May 2026
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of Meteorology at IMD, and farmers at work in the heat. Images by Kundan Pandey and Dibakar Roy via Pexels.

Both daytime and nighttime temperatures have risen: IMD chief [Interview]

Kundan Pandey 29 May 2026
Cows feed on biomedical waste dumped near Tirunelveli. Image by Thinakaran Rajamani.

Biomedical waste crosses borders, polluting farmlands

Prasanth Shanmugasundaram 28 May 2026
A great Indian bustard. Image by Saurabh Sawant via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A low flyer of the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 27 May 2026
Coral garden nursery tables at Mithapur, Gujarat, established using rescued coral boulders from the intertidal region and attaching them to metal tables. Image by B. M. Praveen Kumar/WTI.

How are degraded coral reefs restored in India? [Explainer]

Neha Jain 26 May 2026
A bay woodpecker. Image by Rejoice Gassah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A bird call that signals rains [Commentary]

Aditya Pradhan 25 May 2026
A chandrakaran mango tree filled with fruit from Niranam village, Pathanamthitta district. Image by Amritha Jaiprakash Kurup.

Vanishing mango landraces reflect the loss of shared landscapes [Commentary]

Femi E. Benny 20 May 2026

What a coastal zoning map leaves out, explained in visuals

Shreya Raman 19 May 2026

How map scales impact coastal communities

Shreya Raman 19 May 2026
A male tiger at a stream in Kanha Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Yajuvendraupadhyaya via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Shrinking forest corridors in central India could disrupt tiger dispersal

Manjeera Gowravaram 18 May 2026
A Kali night frog. Image by Aravind C.K.

New night frog comes to light in the Western Ghats

Arathi Menon 15 May 2026
A herd of wild asses photographed against the setting sun in Little Rann of Kutch. Image by Shaunak Chitgopkar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A salt marsh through time [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 14 May 2026

Scientists report plastic-rock formation from India’s western coast

Ananya Singh 13 May 2026

Pollution and poor infrastructure remain barriers to cyclists in India

Aisiri Amin 8 May 2026

A pollinator vital to food and farming

Team Mongabay-India 6 May 2026
A camera trap catches an image of a fishing cat with its kitten in Kaziranga. Image courtesy of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

Kaziranga hosts a healthy population of fishing cats, finds survey

Nabarun Guha 5 May 2026
Saara hardwickii or the spiny-tailed lizard is endemic to the Thar and Kutch desert regions. Image by Mihir Joshi.

Spiny-tailed lizards add insects to the menu

Shweta Yogi 4 May 2026

Dung beetles find an unlikely refuge on an urbanising barrier island system

Sneha Mahale 1 May 2026
Rhinos bathe in a river at Chitwan National Park in Nepal. Image by Jitendra Raj Bajracharya/ICIMOD.

Rising illegal wildlife trade across Himalayan countries threatens the mountain ecosystem

Vandana K. 29 Apr 2026
A relative of a missing person looks at the remains of Tapovan Hydro-Electric Power Dam that was swept away following an avalanche and landslide in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, in February 2021. (AP Photo/Rishabh R. Jain)

Better preparedness and warning systems needed to deal with ice-rock avalanches

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Apr 2026
Günther's Indian gecko. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Small creatures, big adaptations

Team Mongabay-India 22 Apr 2026
A finely embroidered pashmina shawl displayed at a craft store in Kashmir. Image by Hirra Azmat.

Experiments with natural dyes and coloured cocoons for Pashmina and silk

Hirra Azmat 21 Apr 2026
A greater yellow house bat in Dehradun. Image by Rohit Chakravarty.

Wind power’s ecological costs on bats

Aisiri Amin 20 Apr 2026
Myiophanes kempi (family: Reduviidae and sub-family: Emesinae) is a rare predatory bug with long and slender thread-like legs. Inhabiting remote subterranean environments, it remains poorly studied. Image by Hemant V. Ghate.

Rare assassin bug rediscovered after a century

Shweta Yogi 17 Apr 2026

Study finds microplastics in small cats’ scat

Phalguni Ranjan 14 Apr 2026
A view of the Indian Ocean from the Sri Lankan coast. Rising temperatures in the Arabian Sea intensify extreme weather events, with profound consequences for coastal populations from South Asia to East Africa, Australia, and island nations such as Sri Lanka. Image by Praveenshashika via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Global sea surface temperatures are reaching record highs [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 7 Apr 2026

The long-snouted river specialist

Team Mongabay-India 1 Apr 2026

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