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Workers use machinery to fell trees in Aarey colony, amid protests in Mumbai. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Petition accuses Wildlife Board Committee of rubber-stamping diversions with ‘no application of mind’

Simrin Sirur 10 Jul 2026
Tso Moriri lake during the summer, when the lake thaws and vegetation grows. Image by Raghavan37 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In high altitude soils, microbes may be limiting the warming they trigger

Lekha Bandopadhyay 10 Jul 2026
A cement naala baandh in Kiraksal constructed in 2017. Image by Vinaya Kurtkoti.

Watershed management improves livelihoods in drought-prone village

Vinaya Kurtkoti 9 Jul 2026
A caracal caught on camera trap. Image courtesy of Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve.

Scrublands and ravines offer key habitat for the elusive caracal

Sneha Mahale 9 Jul 2026
People rest under the shade of trees in New Delhi as the city is gripped by a heat wave in June 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Cooling cities needs climate-smart design, not just more trees

Deepa Padmanabhan 9 Jul 2026

Proposed solar project in India’s largest grassland sparks conservation concerns

Ronak Gajjar 8 Jul 2026
A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
A fisherman at work at the Loktak Lake. Image by R.K. Neetu Sana.

Warming lake threatens fish habitats and the wetland economy

Barasha Das 7 Jul 2026
Aquatic plants dominate the water surface of Dal Lake. Image by Akhil Paul.

Scientists test turning aquatic weeds into liquid fertilisers

Hirra Azmat 7 Jul 2026

Major mugger habitats lie outside protected areas

Sneha Mahale 6 Jul 2026
Women from the Gadaba Indigenous community walk to collect vegetables and wood from the forest in Hatipakna village, Koraput district, Odisha. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Indigenous communities missing in India’s report on access and benefit sharing [Commentary]

Alphonsa Jojan, Shyama Kuriakose 6 Jul 2026
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.

As elephants venture to higher altitudes researchers track possibilities of conflict

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Jul 2026
A beekeeper in the Nilgiris harvests honey from her hive. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

Indigenous women build new livelihoods with hive boxes

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2026
A tawny pipit, one of the grassland specialist bird species whose habitat is adversely impacted by afforestation in Maharashtra. Image by Siddhant Mhetre.

When trees replace grasslands, specialist birds lose their habitat

Simrin Sirur 2 Jul 2026
A waste worker segregates items at the edge during a fire at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Burning waste is a waste of money

Ravleen Kaur 2 Jul 2026
Earth-moving equipment clears vegetation along the Central Ridge in Delhi. Image by Pradip Krishen.

Delhi witnesses a travesty of ecological restoration [Commentary]

Ankila Hiremath, Vikram Iyer 1 Jul 2026
A caracal photographed by a camera trap at night in Kuno National Park, Madhya Pradesh. Image courtesy of Kuno National Park.

New camera-trap record confirms caracal presence in Kuno

Manish Chandra Mishra 1 Jul 2026
Labourers work in an iron and steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Trade liberalisation meets carbon tariffs as India eyes EU market [Commentary]

Soutrik Goswami, Isha Sharma 30 Jun 2026
A vendor selling helmets rests at a bus stand on a hot summer day in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s banks are sitting on a heat risk they have barely begun to price [Commentary]

Namita Vikas 29 Jun 2026
Reena Kashyap moulds bricks at night. Image by Shivan Bhardwaj.

Night shifts help brick kiln workers avoid peak heat, not its consequences

Shivam Bhardwaj 26 Jun 2026