Articles by Priyanka Shankar

Image shows a bufaalo with starlins on its back followed by a calf near a water body

[Explainer] What is mutualism?

When members of two species have a relationship that is beneficial to both, the interaction is called mutualism. The term was first used by zoologist and paleontologist Pierre Joseph van…
Image shows a bufaalo with starlins on its back followed by a calf near a water body
A woman digs out the roots of the gondra, a river sedge, from Sindh's riverbed. Photo by Poorva Goel.

Finding gondra amid the floods

On August 3, 2021, a flood washed over several villages in the Bundelkhand region of central India. It is speculated that this flood was caused by the unprecedented rainfall coupled…
A woman digs out the roots of the gondra, a river sedge, from Sindh's riverbed. Photo by Poorva Goel.
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