Sahana Ghosh

About

Sahana lives in Kolkata in east India. She jumped ship from microbiology to journalism in 2012. She has worked with leading Indian newswire IANS and has also written for SciDev. Net. With a love for all things green, she dreams of bridging the gap between scientists and the media and open up a Science Cafe someday. Passionate about science content creation and marketing. Advocates gender equality. Science diplomacy. Science in Remote areas.

RSS
376 stories
The Sandynallah valley where the team did its sampling. Photo by Sarath Kavil.

The Todas may have moved up the Nilgiris 3500 years ago: study

Sahana Ghosh 4 Nov 2020
Gwasinlo Thong, chairperson of the reserve committee in front of the Nsonji Lake, Sendenyu Community Biodiversity Reserve. Photo from Sendenyu Community Biodiversity and Wildlife Reserve.

A community in Nagaland strives to sustain wildlife protection amid fresh challenges

Sahana Ghosh 27 Oct 2020
Thoothukudi Thermal power, Thoothukudi. Photo by Hassan Afridhi/Unsplash.

Even with coal, strict air pollution control can prevent early deaths

Sahana Ghosh 22 Oct 2020

Understanding frog diversity with the highs and lows of the Teesta river valley

Sahana Ghosh 13 Oct 2020

Migratory openbill storks find safe haven in Andhra village

Manish Kumar, Sahana Ghosh 6 Oct 2020

A budding botanist’s quest for plant-indigenous community relations

Sahana Ghosh 1 Oct 2020

One of the world’s most trafficked animals needs focus outside India’s protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 18 Sep 2020

Sundarbans endangered as per IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems framework, cautious optimism advised

Sahana Ghosh 17 Sep 2020

Bat call library for the western Himalayas takes wing

Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2020

Splintered habitats may imperil egg-carrying butterflies

Sahana Ghosh 9 Sep 2020

Clean air, sanitation can save newborn lives

Sahana Ghosh 3 Sep 2020

How Rhizophora mangroves on Car Nicobar islands fought back a rapid sea-level rise in 2004 tsunami

Sahana Ghosh 27 Aug 2020

The wild side of India’s educational campuses

Sahana Ghosh 25 Aug 2020

SDGs provide direction for sustainable post-COVID recovery

Sahana Ghosh 19 Aug 2020

Retrofitting coal power plants with carbon capture may lead to increased water stress

Sahana Ghosh 14 Aug 2020

Children sketch human-elephant conflict and coexistence in Odisha

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2020

Deep below the surface, boreholes offer clues to past warming in the Western Ghats

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2020
A female otter in river Kolhu, Uttarakhand. Photo by Sayanti Basak.

Protecting rivers and involving communities to conserve Himalayas’ shy otters

Sahana Ghosh 31 Jul 2020

Mapping conflict hotspots as leopards adapt to unlikely habitats outside protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jul 2020

Mapping human-elephant conflict hotspots from compensation records

Sahana Ghosh 21 Jul 2020

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

Videos
A herd of elephants captured by camera traps at an altitude of over 3,200 metres, the highest known record of elephant presence. Image courtesy of WWF-India/Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department.
Articles
Podcasts