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Assam has more renewable potential than the government estimates, says study

Barasha Das 14 Jun 2024

Clouded leopard and leopard cat occupy same habitat but differently, shows study

Shuchita Jha 11 Jun 2024

Transforming Assam’s brick industry from red to green

Barasha Das 31 May 2024

[Explainer] What is the Sixth Schedule? Why is Ladakh demanding to be brought under it?

Kundan Pandey 17 May 2024
Migratory beekeepers from Bihar, at Barpeta in Assam.

Migratory beekeepers sweeten Assam’s honey production

Barasha Das 6 May 2024

Majuli’s shrinking wetlands and their fight for survival

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 15 Apr 2024

More than 15 years on, implementation of Forest Right Act is lagging, new report finds

Simrin Sirur 4 Apr 2024

Walls come down to make way for elephants

Nabarun Guha 3 Apr 2024

Saving India’s wild ‘unicorns’ 

Arathi Menon 26 Mar 2024

Two new mammal species identified in Kaziranga

Nabarun Guha 14 Feb 2024

Three years after an oil well blowout, this Assam wetland is slowly coping

Bondita Baruah 28 Dec 2023
Oriental pied hornbill perched on a branch.

How the loss of a natural dye-producing plant initiated the idea of a village sanctuary

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Dec 2023
Western Hoolock gibbons. Photo by Udayan Borthakur/Aaranyak.

Saving India’s only ape, the hoolock gibbon

Ashvita Anand 21 Nov 2023

Assam’s Dehing Patkai plans extensive camera-trap study of five small wild cats in the region

Nabarun Guha 8 Nov 2023
A camera-trap image of a clouded leopard in Manas National Park. Clouded leopards are a largely arboreal, shy animals considered the "smallest big cat" in the world. Photo by Urijit Bhatt.

Clouded leopards develop ways to survive competition

Arathi Menon 19 Oct 2023

Assam study shows bats are crucial for natural pest control in paddy fields

Sneha Mahale 10 Oct 2023
A herd of elephants in Assam.

Farmers grow paddy for wild elephants in Assam to reduce conflicts

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023
Image shows a tiger in a forest

Tiger poaching network, that spread from west to east India, busted

Nabarun Guha 11 Sep 2023

Venomous snakebites, an occupational hazard for women tea workers

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Sep 2023
Image shows an orchid

Orchids are blooming earlier than usual in the northeast — and it’s not good news

Azera Parveen Rahman 3 Jul 2023