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Andaman forests need longer intervals between repeat logging for recovery: study

Sahana Ghosh 1 Jun 2021
Embankments demolished in the Mousuni island in the Sundarbans. Photo by West Bengal Radio Club.

Cyclone Yaas imperils communities in low-lying coastal areas of Bay of Bengal

Gurvinder Singh 1 Jun 2021
Local MLA visits damaged site at Madh Island. Photo by Kiran Kohli.

Cyclone Tauktae exposes vulnerabilities along India’s west coast

Supriya Vohra 26 May 2021

Southern India’s 2016-2018 drought was the worst in 150 years

Neha Jain 20 May 2021
Seedlings of Pterygoplichthys sp. Photo by Ajmal Hussan.

Checking spread of invasive alien fish as India faces climate extremes

Sahana Ghosh 19 May 2021

A wake-up jolt? Assam’s 6.4 quake exposes its vulnerabilities

Azera Parveen Rahman 17 May 2021
Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh, India. Photo by CIAT - NP Himachal Pradesh 68/Wikimedia Commons.

Increased farm work negatively impacts women’s nutrition: study

Sahana Ghosh 14 May 2021
There is an urgent need to develop a more resilient and capable observing system to factor in the accelerating pace of climatic and oceanic change. Photo by Blueocean/Wikimedia Commons.

Improved monitoring proposed in the Indian Ocean as climatic and oceanic changes increase

Sahana Ghosh 7 May 2021
White-bellied heron spotted in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo by Dekbin Yonggam.

Elusive white-bellied heron spotted in the high Himalayas

Ranju Dodum 6 May 2021

Not two, only one species of hoolock gibbon in India: study

Roopak Goswami 30 Apr 2021

Eyes in the sky can track effectiveness of nature-based solutions

Sahana Ghosh 29 Apr 2021
Mangrove plantation at Kampong Jawa Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Photo by Irwandi Wancaleu/Wikimedia Commons.

Mapping future hotspots of carbon dioxide emissions from mangrove loss

Sahana Ghosh 28 Apr 2021

Saving the Asiatic black bear from illegal wildlife trade needs nuanced conservation

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 Apr 2021
Indian grey mongoose was one of the animals captured by the camera traps in the cashew nut plantations. Photo by Anushka Rege.

Mammals use cashew plantations in the northern Western Ghats

Neha Jain 22 Apr 2021

Urban support for government action on environment is high, finds pre-COP26 survey

Sahana Ghosh 21 Apr 2021
Deorali sacred forest associated with Deorali Chorten Monastery. Photo by Bijayalaxmi et.al.

Sikkim’s urban sacred groves mitigate double the carbon compared to a natural rural forest

Sahana Ghosh 16 Apr 2021
Bulaceros newcannorum Dixit, 2021. Photo from the Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE).

New marine flatworm from rare group discovered from the coral atolls of Lakshadweep

Neha Jain 14 Apr 2021
Mosundori xaak. Photo by Azera Rahman.

Bihu is here, but where are the 101 varieties of herbs and greens?

Azera Parveen Rahman 13 Apr 2021

[Commentary] Landslides in the concrete jungle of Darjeeling

Shreyasi Choudhury 9 Apr 2021
Rani Varghese, a Kochi native, works out the mangroves carbon sequestration potential. Photo by Hari Praved.

Kochi’s disappearing mangroves lock away significant carbon

Sahana Ghosh 7 Apr 2021

Odisha plans to satellite-tag pangolins to study them better

Manish Kumar 6 Apr 2021
Rucervus eldii eldii

Threatened sangai deer’s habitat likely to shrink due to climate change

Roopak Goswami 2 Apr 2021
Women in a rice field in India (Tamil Nadu). Achievements of global goals on health, water, sanitation and matters of gender equality and their anticipated impacts on forests remain poorly researched. Photo by Deepak Kumar/Unsplash.

Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2021
The Mandarin duck in northeast India. Photo by Ranjan Kumar Das.

Mandarin duck sighting raises awareness on lesser-known wetlands

Rini Barman 25 Mar 2021
Otters in a bird sanctuary at Uppalapadu near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. Photo by Ch.Vijay Bhaskar.

Otter sighting in Andhra bird sanctuary raises excitement but also questions

M. Somasekhar 24 Mar 2021

Avian flu in India brings forth environmental, animal and human health linkages

Sahana Ghosh 17 Mar 2021

Radio telemetry signals new ways to study snakes

Arathi Menon 15 Mar 2021
Indian Porcupine in the Haryana Aravallis. Photo by Sunil Harsana.

Delhi and Haryana’s Aravallis support rich biodiversity and need protection

Neha Jain 11 Mar 2021
A home that flooded in Kerala in 2018. Photo by Dilshad Roshan/Wikimedia Commons.

Floods, cyclones caused maximum deaths by extreme weather events in past 50 years

Sahana Ghosh 9 Mar 2021

Genomics offer clues to how forest trees responded to the last Ice Age

Sahana Ghosh 5 Mar 2021

The woman who breaks stereotypes while rescuing wildlife in Kashmir

Athar Parvaiz 3 Mar 2021

Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss

T. V. Padma 1 Mar 2021

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