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Tigers are vanishing outside protected areas in the northeast

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2019

Your environment this week: Science behind Kerala floods, tree planting family tradition, Amaravati at a standstill

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2019

Enormous alien fish spotted in Kerala’s rivers after the 2018 floods

Aathira Perinchery 16 Aug 2019

Cadre of community professionals to help implement Meghalaya’s water policy

Sahana Ghosh 12 Aug 2019

Your environment this week: Tiger reserve economics, Darjeeling tea vs climate change, e-rickshaws for better air

Mongabay.com 9 Aug 2019
The Tharuvaikulam wharf from where the palmyra tree climbers who took to fishing set sail with their eco-friendly gill nets.

Tharuvaikulam’s palmyra climbers turn sustainable fishers

Jency Samuel 9 Aug 2019

Your environment this week: Agro-waste to plastics, millets in beer, battling the giant snail invasion

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2019

Kerala’s monsoon trawling ban has become a bone of contention

Haritha John 31 Jul 2019

As cloud seeding catches on in times of climate change, more research holds the key

Meena Menon 29 Jul 2019

Your environment this week: Assam floods, Mumbai’s mangrove guardian, spa for fishes

Mongabay.com 26 Jul 2019
Women are an important part of India’s fishing industry, especially as fish sellers. In Mangalore market they also work as loaders. Photo by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 22 Jul 2019

Your environment this week: Citizens for wildflowers, private forests, revival of Saraswati

19 Jul 2019

With Puri’s green shelterbelt destroyed, human-animal conflicts could increase

Shweta Thakur Nanda 16 Jul 2019
Social interaction between a younger and an older male elephant. Photo by Nishant Srinivasaiah/FEP.

Your environment this week: Budget and the environment, seabird poop benefits, all-male elephant groups

Mongabay.com 12 Jul 2019
An all male group moving through human habitations. Photo by Vinod Moses/FEP.

Elephants form unusual all-male groups to survive human landscapes

Aathira Perinchery 11 Jul 2019

What is preventing the widespread adoption of biopesticides in India?

T. V. Padma 9 Jul 2019

Kutch’s Wagad or Kala cotton: Back from the (almost) dead

Azera Parveen Rahman 8 Jul 2019

Your environment this week: India’s wildlife crime, water crisis in Chennai and Punjab

Mongabay.com 5 Jul 2019

Hope runs dry as groundwater sources in Punjab drop to alarming levels

Sunaina Kumar 5 Jul 2019

Your environment this week: The Tiger of Kaveri, microplastics in mussels and dangers of mosquito coils

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

What are invasive plants?

Aathira Perinchery 27 Jun 2019

Parthenium could take over large parts of India under current climate change

Aathira Perinchery 27 Jun 2019

Microplastics and colourants found in mussels from India’s southeast coast

Neha Jain 25 Jun 2019
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Hidden cameras reveal six colour variants of the Asiatic golden cat

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jun 2019

Your environment this week: Citizen’s efforts for water conservation, the origins of pepper and more

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2019

When and from where did black pepper come to India?

T. V. Padma 20 Jun 2019

Interactions between people and wild canids in central India

Aathira Perinchery 17 Jun 2019

Your environment this week: India’s disappearing insects, tiger den in Veerappan’s lair, sand mining crisis

Mongabay.com 14 Jun 2019
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Old Veerappan lair set to be a tiger den

K.A. Shaji 14 Jun 2019

Restoration of Ansupa Lake brightens wetland conservation hopes

Basudev Mahapatra 10 Jun 2019

Your environment this week: Mental health post Fani, hoolock gibbons, what is seagrass?

Mongabay.com 7 Jun 2019
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Communities join hands to keep alive the hoolock gibbon’s song

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 7 Jun 2019

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