Bharti Dharapuram

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Bharti Dharapuram is an ecologist by training whose research took her to the beautiful coastline of India and the forests of the Western Ghats. She is passionate about writing stories rooted in science, spanning ecology, evolutionary biology and climate.

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New study highlights emerging disease risk from mosquitoes

Bharti Dharapuram 2 Dec 2025

India’s urban-rural air quality divide

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Sep 2025

A rise in tiger numbers along with expanding human settlements is bringing people and livestock in contact with these large carnivores, resulting in conflict around protected areas. Image by Himanshu Chattani.

Tracing a tiger from its kill

Bharti Dharapuram 16 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

Flying squirrels take off from trees and glide down a slope by extending a membrane called the patagium connecting their front and hind limbs. Image by Pavel Kirillov via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Flying squirrel habitats predicted to tailspin under climate change

Bharti Dharapuram 11 Jun 2025

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.