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People cover their ears during a loudspeaker competition at a fair in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in 2011. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Noise pollution is a public health risk that’s hard to measure and monitor

Disha Shetty 15 Oct 2026
A tigress captured on camera trap in Valmiki Tiger Reserve in 2005. Image courtesy of Wildlife Trust of India.

Lessons from translocating a tiger for population recovery [Commentary]

Samir Kumar Sinha 13 Oct 2026
A worker carries crates of apples through a high-density orchard in south Kashmir. Image by Faisal Bashir.

As Kashmir turns from paddy to apples, dependence on outside rice grows

Farzana Nisar 13 Oct 2026
A garden lizard on a shrub of the genus Carissa. Image by Sonali Dahotre.

Reclaiming nature’s many delights through living fences [Book Review]

Usha Rai 12 Oct 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in the Rupnarayan river. Image by Abdul Wakid.

Ganges river dolphins may synchronise their activity with time, tides and the moon

Sneha Mahale 12 Oct 2026
A fish swims through bleached coral reefs in Caribbean waters near Panama in August this year. Representative image. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

Max Martin 9 Oct 2026
Baby Titus inside a neighbour's house that has been wrecked by floods. Image by Arathi M.R.

The emotional cost of displacement

Arathi M.R. 9 Oct 2026

India’s deep-sea fishing dreams are struggling to stay afloat

Supriya Vohra 8 Oct 2026
A woman wades through floodwaters to collect drinking water near her submerged house in Jorhat, Assam in August 2026. (AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)

A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Rupsy Khurana 8 Oct 2026

Humid heat challenges India’s conventional heatwave thresholds

Barasha Das 7 Oct 2026

Forgotten vegetables could help make our diets more resilient

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 6 Oct 2026
Farmers in Lingshed Valley sowing barley in Ladakh. The proposed National Adaptation Plan includes a focus on traditional knowledge and heritage. Image by Ingo Mehling via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India needs a just adaptation agenda [Commentary]

Ishan Kukreti, Sarada Prasanna Das, Sony R K 6 Oct 2026

Protests over dam heat up as crackdown on activists continues

Simrin Sirur 5 Oct 2026
An ibisbill tagged and fitted with satellite PTT. Image by Khursheed Ahmad.

Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom

Hirra Azmat 5 Oct 2026
Declared a national project in 2014, the Polavaram project is funded by the union government, with Andhra Pradesh carrying out the construction. Image courtesy of Polavaram Project Authority.

Unclear records leave villages in limbo over irrigation project displacement

Ayushi Sharma 2 Oct 2026
A farmer grazer her cattle. Image by Mahesh Maske.

Maharashtra formally recognises women farmers regardless of land ownership [Commentary]

Soumya Swaminathan 1 Oct 2026
A pet African grey parrot in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu. More than 40,000 people in India have declared their exotic pets. By law, pet owners must register possession, transfer, birth and death of species listed in the Wild Life (Protection) Act. Representative image by Yercaud-elango via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Legal system fails to keep pace with India’s growing exotic pet industry

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2026
A coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Representative image by Vikash Singh via Pexels.

India’s coking coal push needs a methane plan [Commentary]

Purva Jain, Saumya Nautiyal 29 Sep 2026
Shompen people in Great Nicobar Island in 1997. The Shompen are the original forest dwellers of the Island. Images courtesy of Manish Chandi.

Isolated island tribes should choose their own destinies, says Manish Chandi [Interview]

Latoya Abulu 28 Sep 2026

NGOs call for permanent moratorium on animal imports to Vantara

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2026