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While Lantana camara, considered one of the world’s most troublesome weeds, is widespread in India, other invasives like Senna spectabilis and Crofton weed have received little attention despite reports of being invasive. Photo by Bhawna Negi.

Lurking behind Lantana, a ‘devil’ is spreading in the mountains

Hirra Azmat 11 Jan 2024

[Book review] Environment and economics: linkages that could make or break our post-pandemic world

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Jan 2024

Interlinking of rivers could flood India’s freshwater with invasive fish

Max Martin 27 Dec 2023

[Book Review] From footnotes to the forefront: a note of gratitude to invaluable field assistants

RSC Jayaraj, Shagufta Ahmed 14 Dec 2023

[Book review] Women biologists take centre stage saving forests and wildlife

Usha Rai 20 Nov 2023

[Interview] In ‘Shades of Blue’, ecologists explore the murky future of India’s urban waters

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 Nov 2023

[Book Review] Pioneer ecologist Madhav Gadgil on his life spent in, and for, India’s biodiversity

Usha Rai 30 Oct 2023

[Book Review] A walk down the Nilgiri hills

Arathi Menon 6 Oct 2023

Megaherbivores could be a potential solution to manage invasive plants, finds study

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2023

Bioinvasions are a global threat to ecosystems, says IPBES report

Arathi Menon 21 Sep 2023
Image shows people surrounding a water well in India

[Book Review] A deep dive into the imbalances of climate justice in India

Usha Rai 24 May 2023
A Landsat 7 image of the Sundarbans. Photo by NASA Observatory/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Book review] Lawscape behind landmarks: India’s history of environmental laws and policies

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Mar 2023

[Book review] Birds of the mountains feature in a new book on birds on postage stamps

S. Theodore Baskaran 14 Feb 2023
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[Explainer] Mass flowering and why some plants bloom and die together

Priya Ranganathan 29 Dec 2022
Image shows a forest canopy

[Interview] Forests in the sky: ATREE scientist Soubadra Devy on studying tree canopies in India

Geetha Iyer 21 Dec 2022
Image shows bowls of diced vegetables and wheat crackers

[Commentary] A renewed CGIAR can better support South Asia to determine its food future

Temina Lalani-Shariff 13 Dec 2022
Image shows green mountains

[Explainer] Wastelands or grasslands? India’s history with defining open ecosystems

Mahima Jain 6 Dec 2022
Image shows a giant squirrel on a tree branch

How preserving forests could save the Indian giant squirrel

Sneha Mahale 23 Nov 2022
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Top invasive species are blooming in India despite climate change

T. V. Padma 15 Nov 2022
Image shows a cloudy sky at sunset in West Bengal, India

Isotopic technique to record rainfall data can boost monsoon prediction

Archita Bhatta 9 Nov 2022
Image shows a pugmark of a tiger on a dusty ground

[Book review] At The Feet of Living Things is a remarkable journey in forest and wildlife conservation

Usha Rai 26 Oct 2022
Image shows a rhino in a grassland in India

[Commentary] What does the DNA say about the future of the rhino in India?

Amit Sharma, Samrat Mondol, Tista Ghosh 11 Oct 2022
Image shows a woody climber twisting around a tree in a forest

[Explainer] Woody climbers, lianas, embody the inter-connectedness of a forest

Geetha Iyer 20 Sep 2022
Image shows men carrying LPG cylinders down to a boat in West Bengal, India

[Commentary] Innovations needed in fossil fuel subsidy to promote clean cooking in India

Abhishek Kar 15 Aug 2022
Image shows a pre-dawn view of Trishul peak in the Himalayas

[Book Review] In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the climate crisis

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 Jul 2022
A wind farm in Tamil Nadu. Open access for green energy could help minimise fossil fuel usage and promote country-wide trade of clean energy.

Discoms and states pivotal to making renewable energy via open access a success

Manish Kumar 4 Jul 2022
Image shows aggregation of Cyanobacteria

New tool enables early detection of cyanobacterial blooms in India’s waterbodies

Neha Jain 25 Feb 2022

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