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An elderly farmer shows fallen fruit and flood damage in his submerged orchard in Pulwama. Image by Abid Bhat.

Old wounds reopened by new floods

Mudassir Kuloo 12 Sep 2025
The brown forest bob (Scobura woolletti) was known in parts of Southeast Asia, and thought to be a rare sight in the Northeast. A 2010 study however revealed that the butterflies recorded in the Northeast was a different species, now named Scobura parawoolletti or Assam forest bob (seen in the photo). Image by Sarangapani Neog.

Sarangapani Neog on documenting butterflies in a sanctuary [Interview]

Barasha Das 12 Sep 2025

A chef’s guide to eating local and sustainable

Saumitra Shinde 12 Sep 2025
Elephants emerge from the forest in Wayanad. Image by M.K. Ramdas.

Intensifying efforts to tackle human animal conflict, a state-specific disaster

Saritha S. Balan 11 Sep 2025
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

Rethinking conservation finance with basic income for nature [Commentary]

Munib Khanyari 10 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

Lives, homes and crops lost as Punjab faces the worst flood in decades

Manu Moudgil 9 Sep 2025
Mithuns in Roing in Lower Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Conflicted over attacks on mithuns, experts gun for hunting ban

Kasturi Das 9 Sep 2025

The dark side of bright lights

Krishna Kakani 8 Sep 2025

The search for the Jerdon’s courser needs to be deepened [Commentary]

Ronith Urs 8 Sep 2025

Historical climate data helps predict renewable energy “drought” events

Nandhini Somasundaram 5 Sep 2025
Dredging activity on the Beas River near Aaloo Ground, Kalath, Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh. Image by Sumit Mahar, Himdhara Collective.

Flood control plans could open doors to unregulated mining

Meenakshi Kapoor 5 Sep 2025

Green credit rules tweaked to favour canopy cover, remove trade provision

Simrin Sirur 4 Sep 2025

On the trail of a lost relic [Commentary]

Sahanashree Ramakrishnaiah 4 Sep 2025
A representative image of cosmetic products. Image by Bairavi Arjunan3 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Behind the shimmer, the toxic story of mica and forever chemicals [Commentary]

Trisha Putturaya, Chirag Dhara 3 Sep 2025
Blackbucks in Jayamangali Blackbuck Conservation Reserve area in Karnataka’s Tumkur district. Image by Seshadri K.S.

Blackbucks thrive outside a fragmented protected reserve

Aisiri Amin 3 Sep 2025
A stray dog in Kolkata. In 2024 and 2025, the Centre issued advisories urging Urban Local Bodies to set up Animal Birth Control units and carry out large-scale sterilisation programmes. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0).

Street dogs in the spotlight as rabies eradication deadline comes closer

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2025

Scientists turn to speed breeding to develop resilient, high yield crops

Hirra Azmat 2 Sep 2025