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Conducting fieldwork in Fakim Community Reserve with a local resident Alemba. Photo from Joli Rumi Borah.

[Interview] Conservation scientist Joli Rumi Borah on integrating traditional knowledge in research

Sahana Ghosh 13 Apr 2023
Bhuten Saikia in his vegetable garden in Rahmaria. Photo by Bondita Baruah.

Abrupt floods and drought-like situations in Assam disrupt farming practices

Bondita Baruah 30 Mar 2023
Crops raided by wild boars in Kaziranga. Photo by Nabarun Guha.

Farmers in Kaziranga demand timely, sufficient compensation for the crop raids by wildlife

Nabarun Guha 17 Feb 2023

[Commentary] A safe passage for the jumbos to the islands on the Brahmaputra

Anupam Sarmah, Arjun Kamdar, David Smith, Hiten Kumar Baishya 14 Feb 2023

[Commentary] A story of two mothers from a human-elephant conflict zone in Assam

Sayan Banerjee 30 Jan 2023

Shielding hijol, a floodplain tree, from climate impacts

Roopak Goswami 24 Jan 2023

How Assam’s Mising community is coping with floods through architectural design

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 23 Jan 2023
Loco Pilots allege negligence on implementation of safety measures around important elephant corridors. Photo from Northeast Frontier Railway.

Assam loco pilots on the need for effective communication to prevent elephant-rail collision

Barasha Das 9 Jan 2023
The habitat of the WWWD in the eastern part of the Indian Eastern Himalayan region, is likely to shift westward.

Climate change threatens the habitat of the endangered white-winged wood duck, finds study

Roopak Goswami 18 Oct 2022
Image shows a rhino in a grassland in India

[Commentary] What does the DNA say about the future of the rhino in India?

Amit Sharma, Samrat Mondol, Tista Ghosh 11 Oct 2022
Image shows a twig with two leaves with greenery in the background against an open sky

Reconstructing 90-year-long rainfall history in northeast India using tea garden records

Sahana Ghosh 7 Sep 2022
People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022
A dolphin in Kulsi river. Photo from Prasanna Kalita.

Gangetic river dolphins in Assam decline in the wake of anthropogenic pressures

Nabarun Guha 24 Aug 2022
Image shows a lake under overcast skies in India

A hope for climate-focused urban planning in Assam’s cities reeling from severe floods

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 10 Aug 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

Scientists unpack the influence of black carbon aerosols on rainfall in northeast India

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jun 2022
Image shows a herd of elephants walking through a paddy field in India

Fences of lemon trees keep elephants away from Assam farmers’ crops and homes

Kasturi Das 15 Jun 2022

Electromagnetic radiation levels till a certain limit found to have no impact on sparrows in Guwahati

Roopak Goswami 9 Jun 2022

Poachers saw off horn, but leave rhino alive in a unique case in Assam

Nabarun Guha and Sahana Ghosh 3 Jun 2022

Failure to cut GHG emissions is putting species conservation in eastern Himalayas at risk

Sahana Ghosh 16 May 2022