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Extreme weather events and agriculture: what are the impacts and what’s in store?

Aathira Perinchery 22 Nov 2021
A Waghoba worshipper at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. Photo by Ramya Nair/Project Waghoba.

Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space

Aathira Perinchery 4 Oct 2021

Is India’s rooftop solar sector being ignored for large-scale projects?

Aathira Perinchery 24 Aug 2021

Are we overlooking the role of grasslands in mitigating climate change?

Aathira Perinchery 29 Jun 2021
The Malayan giant squirrel is a common sight in tree canopies in parts of north-east India, but hunting and habitat loss threaten the species, as does a lack of targeted research. Photo by Shreejit Borthakur.

Common, yet threatened: The case of northeast India’s Malayan giant squirrels

Aathira Perinchery 25 May 2021
Marine debris entangled in branching coral in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar. Photo courtesy SDMRI.

Ghosts of the gulf: Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar

Aathira Perinchery 18 Jan 2021

How people respond to predators in the Indian Himalaya

Aathira Perinchery 17 Dec 2020

Life and struggles of the sloth bear in human-dominated areas

Aathira Perinchery 27 Nov 2020
Youth from the Kadar community in Athirapilly fishing in a tributary. Photo credit by Aathira Perinchery.

Over 1,800 rainforest trees to be axed for hydropower project near proposed Athirapilly dam

Aathira Perinchery 12 Nov 2020
NCF field staff collecting seeds for their nursery that is part of their restoration work that has been ongoing since 2014. Photo by Aparajita Datta.

COVID-19 cripples long-term ecological monitoring research in India

Aathira Perinchery 3 Nov 2020

Frog discovered in the Eastern Ghats also found in the Western Ghats, more than 1000 km away

Aathira Perinchery 27 Oct 2020

A brand new family of bony fishes from south India

Aathira Perinchery 7 Oct 2020
Nilgiri Pipit_Prasenjeet Yadav

Conserving high elevation shola-grasslands crucial for the endemic Nilgiri pipit

Aathira Perinchery 15 Sep 2020

How butterflies strike a relationship with ants using specialised organs

Aathira Perinchery 2 Sep 2020

Conserve both large intact and small degraded habitats to maintain biodiversity

Aathira Perinchery 3 Aug 2020

Discoveries and rediscoveries: Stoneflowers in northeast India

Aathira Perinchery 30 Jul 2020

The Indian dragons we know so little about

Aathira Perinchery 30 Jun 2020

Leopard genes hint at a probable population decline in India a century or two ago

Aathira Perinchery 15 Jun 2020

From shed hair, scientists obtain whole genomes of wild tigers

Aathira Perinchery 21 May 2020

A new species of wood snake emerges in the Western Ghats, mottled in grey-brown

Aathira Perinchery 20 Apr 2020

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