Sometimes, particularly during monsoons, the day starts around 4 a.m., earlier than usual, for Rati Ranjan Mondal in Assam’s Nagrijuli village on the Indo-Bhutan border. Mondal wakes up, after a…
The proposed Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river in northeast India - a controversial political issue between India and Bangladesh - could be the last nail in the coffin for…
Amid the ongoing global discourse on the interplay between carbon dioxide and tropical rainforests, Indian scientists have begun tracking Kaziranga National Park’s behaviour as a carbon sink and source, in…
Researchers warn of impending droughts and famines in flood-prone Assam, linked to the overexploitation of usable groundwater by irrigation-associated pumping. A study that examined the status of the stock of groundwater…
On a gloomy afternoon in May 2018, conservation biologist Bibhab Talukdar was visiting Pobitora National Park in Assam. As he rode an elephant into the grasslands at the core of…
All the 65 households at Borbali Samua, a little village in the Lakhimpur district of Assam, share their homes with a chirpy, industrious, oft-beleaguered creature: the house sparrow. Forty-seven-year-old Jayanta…
Children across the world have realised it's now or never. As youth worldwide skip schools today in protest to demand action on climate change, a group of girls in the flood-prone…
A tiny reserve forest in Assam along a fenced stretch of the India-Bangladesh border is facing a unique predicament. Bereft of a male elephant, the population of six remaining border-cruising…
Beetle fry, anyone? A ‘Pest-aurant’ in the remote and rapidly-shrinking Majuli, world’s largest river island in northeast India, has cooked up a unique method to prevent pests from attacking crops…
In the ongoing Amsterdam Light Festival, illuminating the city’s waterway, a Serbian artist duo’s installation of an LED version of Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic painting ‘The Starry Night’ has drawn…
