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‘We cannot hold peace talks at gunpoint’: Security build-up deepens distrust over dam

Ranju Dodum 6 Nov 2026

As wars reshape priorities, climate cooperation faces a test at the UN Climate Summit

Soumya Sarkar 6 Nov 2026

Two losses this year, but authorities say great Indian bustard’s rewilding is on track

Arathi Menon 6 Nov 2026

A native tarantula as a seasonal food

Sabir Nishat 5 Nov 2026
A vegetable vendor sits beside air coolers outside a shop in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

El Niño link offers early warning of humid heat

Archita Bhatta 4 Nov 2026
A mouse in a laboratory. Representative image via Pixabay.

New draft rules could dilute regulations for animal testing

Simrin Sirur 3 Nov 2026

When livelihoods adapt to a changing wetland

Debarun Choudhury 3 Nov 2026
A markhor in Jammu and Kashmir. Image by Riyaz Ahmad.

Study maps foot-and-mouth disease risk zones where livestock and wildlife overlap

Hirra Azmat 2 Nov 2026
Wind turbines near Sadla village, Surendranagar district, Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

India’s emissions growth slows as renewable energy begins replacing coal, UNEP report finds

Manish Chandra Mishra 2 Nov 2026
A rescue worker near excavators at the core disaster-hit area at Gyirong Port following the August 26 mudslide on September 6, 2026. (Tingshu Wang/Pool photo via AP)

Scientists explore whether Himalayan disasters can be anticipated

Max Martin 30 Oct 2026
Snow trout caught in the Himalayas. Representative image by Matthew Laird Acred via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Snow trout needs more than reintroduction to survive

Sameeksha Sharma 29 Oct 2026
Volunteers map avenue trees as part of I Change Indiranagar's tree-mapping exercise. Image by Kannan A.S.

Citizens push back infrastructure projects that threaten green cover

Sohel Sarkar 29 Oct 2026
Water from the taps run yellow in Nashik. Image by Esha Lohia.

Chromium in water upends life in an industrial neighbourhood

Esha Lohia 28 Oct 2026
An aerial view of an island in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. Representative image by Nabil Naidu via Pexels.

Centre says tribal leaders are not ‘necessary’ parties to Great Nicobar forest rights dispute

Simrin Sirur 27 Oct 2026
A flooded field in Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. Image by Sameeksha Sharma.

Farmers prepare for low rain but get floods instead

Sameeksha Sharma 27 Oct 2026
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 26 Oct 2026
A golden mahseer in a free-flowing, unobstructed stretch of the Ganga before the Srinagar dam. Maintaining these clear, uninterrupted waterways is critical for the survival, seasonal migration, and genetic variability of Himalayan megafish. Image by Saurabh Dewan.

Community models could help conserve the disappearing migratory freshwater fish [Commentary]

Saurabh Dewan 23 Oct 2026
A light aircraft such as a Cessna, fitted with flare racks that can burn substances at appropriate altitudes, is used to release aerosol particles into clouds for cloud seeding. Representative image by Christian Jansky via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

Cloud seeding’s potential to ease drought is uncertain

Nikhil Sreekandan 23 Oct 2026
A taxi on the move in Kolkata, West Bengal. A global air-monitoring study quantified tyre-derived chemicals in the air using passive samplers. Kolkata ranked first among all global cities in diphenylguanidine concentration. Image by Dharamveer via Pexels.

The toxic tyre chemical no one is measuring

Lakshmi Nilakantan 22 Oct 2026
A marine iguana. Image by RAF-YCC via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

How Columbus’ voyages accelerated the homogenisation of Earth’s biodiversity [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Oct 2026