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Khejri trees are declining in the Thar desert. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

A beloved ‘tree of life’ is vanishing from an already scarce desert

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2025

Students during an e-class at Lakhipur MV School. Image courtesy of Jaher Ali.

Renewable energy efforts boost learning in remote island schools

Shailesh Shrivastava 10 Sep 2025

A hardy desert fruit faces threats, putting women’s incomes at risk

Vishal Kumar Jain 10 Sep 2025

Children face a disproportionate burden of environmental risks

Shweta Thakur Nanda 21 Aug 2025

A caracal was captured on a trap camera in July at Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh. Image courtesy: MP Forest Department.

Caracal sighting offers a clue, not a sign of recovery, say conservation biologists

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Aug 2025

The rusty-spotted cat known as the hummingbird of cats falls in the ‘Near Threatened’ category in the IUCN Red List . Photo by Radheshyam Bishnoi

Jungle cat most widespread, rusty-spotted cat declining, finds national survey

Manish Chandra Mishra 29 Jul 2025

The recent deaths of a female tiger and her four cubs in the Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary comes as a blow to tiger conservation. It reveals lapses in forest protection, unchecked livestock grazing, and brewing human-animal conflict in the landscape. Representative image of tiger cubs by Gurdeep Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tiger deaths reveal conservation challenges

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Jul 2025

The aim of BHGY is to increase the income of marginal farmers. The scheme is linked to carbon finance so that farmers can take proper care of their orchards. Image by TRIF.

Carbon markets fund plantations and livelihoods

Vishal Kumar Jain 8 Jul 2025

About 50 villages and hamlets along the Jodhpur-Barmer highway have been suffering from the side effects of the pollutants of the Jojari river since 2007. Image by Nirmal Verma/Mongabay.

Toxic water flows, forcing out people and biodiversity

Vishal Kumar Jain 26 Jun 2025

Traffic congestion on the Airport Road, in Bengaluru. Inadequate investment in public transport options has led to a dramatic increase in private cars and two-wheelers in the city. Image by Rasheed Kappan.

Bengaluru trapped in ‘tunnel vision’

Rasheed Kappan 19 Mar 2025

Climate change-induced pest outbreak in sugarcane fields impact quality of jaggery

Vishal Kumar Jain 28 Jan 2025

New study proposes roadmap to conserve the clouded leopard

Sneha Mahale 13 Jan 2025

P. Gowri Shankar with a king cobra in Agumbe

Behind the discovery of four kings

Shailesh Shrivastava 7 Jan 2025

Madhya Pradesh, known as the Tiger State, has the highest number of tigers among all states in the country. Image by Vikas Sulya.

Teething troubles or conservation challenges at India’s latest tiger reserve?

Deshdeep Saxena 2 Jan 2025

A herd of wild elephants roaming and grazing in Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve. Image by P. K. Verma

Fungus, not kodo millet, responsible for Bandhavgarh elephant deaths

Manish Chandra Mishra 27 Nov 2024

The missing tigers of Ranthambore

Deshdeep Saxena 25 Nov 2024

Flooded school campus. Image by Ananya Chetia.

When books sink underwater in Assam

Ananya Chetia 4 Oct 2024

The Hummingbird School campus of Assam during the 2017 floods. Image by special arrangement.

Schools feel the heat as closures increase with extreme weather events

Shailesh Shrivastava 27 Sep 2024

Spineless fodder cactus growing in the IGFRI campus in Jhansi. Image- Shuchita Jha

Experimenting with biogas from cactus

Shuchita Jha 14 Aug 2024

Increasing summer temperatures impacting birds in Indian cities

Shanmukha Srija J 1 Aug 2024

Insect fumigation. Image courtesy of Nathania Ria Prince.

What’s killing the buzz? A look into urban fumigation

Nathania Ria Prince 25 Jul 2024

Spineless cactus farm at the IGFRI campus in Jhansi. Image by Shuchita Jha/Mongabay

Uttar Pradesh to fast-track biofuel production with the right blend of ethanol and biogas

Shuchita Jha 24 Jul 2024

Otters face heat from smugglers in northeast India

Nabarun Guha 2 Jul 2024

Clouded leopard and leopard cat occupy same habitat but differently, shows study

Shuchita Jha 11 Jun 2024

What’s on the menu? Understanding the diverse diet of fishing cats

Sneha Mahale 31 May 2024

Asiatic wildcat with classic tabby pattern spotted in Rajasthan, experts say genetic study needed to confirm

Shuchita Jha 29 May 2024

Closing Bengaluru parks in the afternoons deprives outdoor workers of refuge from heat

Pragathi Ravi 20 May 2024

Not so rusty? Feline spotting in Uttar Pradesh triggers debate over leucism

Shuchita Jha 17 May 2024

Dr. Mohsin Ali Gazi (incharge veterinary officer) along with staff treating a leopard in Kashmir: Image- Arranged from Dr Mohsin Ali Gazi

Wildlife rescue operations in Kashmir face an uphill battle with rising human-wildife conflict

Mudassir Kuloo 26 Apr 2024

Walls come down to make way for elephants

Nabarun Guha 3 Apr 2024

Farmer Ghulam Hassan examines the feathery shell of the damaged saffron corms and a quill that is left behind by the porcupines following a nocturnal attack on his field.

Loss of forest cover in Kashmir is pitting a protected animal against the world’s costliest spice

Abrar Mattoo 23 Nov 2023

Mistaken identity becomes a major threat for India’s small wild cats

Shailesh Shrivastava 15 Nov 2023

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