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Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022
Forest man of India' Jadav Payeng in his Molai Kathoni forest. Photo by Anudip Gogoi.

Planted forests can tackle flood and erosion impacts along the Brahmaputra

Nabarun Guha 29 Nov 2021

Floating solars illuminating Indian hinterlands, likely to see more expansion

Manish Kumar 26 Nov 2021

Assam’s perfume tree comes to the tea industry’s rescue

Azera Parveen Rahman 24 Nov 2021

The birth of Raimona, Assam’s sixth national park

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 18 Nov 2021

Rare ornamental fish from Assam on the brink of extinction

Anuraag Baruah 17 Nov 2021
Remnant forests in large tea monocultures in Darjeeling, Eastern Himalayas. Photo by Annesha Chowdhury.

Tea plantations support biodiversity when managed agroecologically

Roopak Goswami 1 Nov 2021

A bridge of trees reunites gibbons separated by a railway line in Assam

Anuraag Baruah 15 Oct 2021
Son Beel, Assam's largest wetland. Photo by Rahul Choudhury.

Fishermen struggle to survive as Assam’s largest wetland shrinks away

Aatreyee Dhar 1 Oct 2021
Theophilus Khojol gets ready to harvest pineapples in his agroforestry land in Assam. Photo by Animekh Hazarika.

Sweet pineapples and a variety of trees nurture each other in this patchwork plantation

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2021

Assam’s wild water buffalo is treading troubled waters

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 20 Sep 2021

Assam to destroy nearly 2500 seized rhino horns in anti-poaching message

Nabarun Guha 17 Sep 2021

To escape floodwaters, Kaziranga’s large herbivores risk moving through human-dominated spaces: study

Sahana Ghosh 27 Aug 2021

Illegal sand mining a threat to the shrinking Chandubi lake

Anuraag Baruah 24 Aug 2021

Impact of armed conflicts on wildlife underestimated: study

Sahana Ghosh 28 Jul 2021

Neglect shrouds Behali Reserve Forest’s biodiversity along Assam-Arunachal border

Nabarun Guha 23 Jul 2021
Pineapple agroforestry system in southern Assam. Photo by Animekh Hazarika.

Harnessing the unrealised potential of agroforestry in curbing climate change in India

Neha Jain 6 Jul 2021

Baghjan oil blowout: Report indicates a long road to recovery and ecological restoration

Roopak Goswami, Sahana Ghosh 5 Jul 2021
Wild buffalos, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. Photo by Gregoire Dubois/Flickr

Wild buffalo, Chhattisgarh’s state animal, is on the verge of extinction

Alok Prakash Putul 17 Jun 2021
The Malayan giant squirrel is a common sight in tree canopies in parts of north-east India, but hunting and habitat loss threaten the species, as does a lack of targeted research. Photo by Shreejit Borthakur.

Common, yet threatened: The case of northeast India’s Malayan giant squirrels

Aathira Perinchery 25 May 2021