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A green warbler (Phylloscopus nitidus) photographed in Chorokhi Delta, Georgia. Image by Wouter van der Ham via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Decoding the lives of tiny birds in a changing world

Kartik Chandramouli 15 May 2025
Volunteers working to restore the Aravalli Biodiversity Park, Gurgaon. Image by Vijay Dhasmana via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Understanding the challenges of this bountiful planet [Book Review]

K. Jayanthi 12 May 2025
This crane fly Hexatoma (Eriocera) sp., photographed in Wayanad, Kerala, is a wasp mimic. Image by L. Shyamal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The commonly seen but rarely understood crane fly [Commentary]

Geetha Iyer 8 May 2025

Ignoring biodiversity could put businesses at risk [Commentary]

Sumit Arora 7 Apr 2025
hoppy frog environmental game

Gaming on for environmental awareness

Aisiri Amin 28 Feb 2025

Public private partnerships build urban forests

Shweta Thakur Nanda 20 Feb 2025
Nepali village wild elephants conflict

A border village learns to live with migratory elephants

Deepak Adhikari 13 Feb 2025
Western Ghats wayanad landslides

Caught between exploitation and extremes, Western Ghats’ future hinges on local action

Max Martin 29 Jan 2025
taxonomist jini jacob documents meiofauna nematodes

Indian taxonomist forays into the uncharted waters of meiofauna

Nikhil Sreekandan 16 Jan 2025

New study proposes roadmap to conserve the clouded leopard

Sneha Mahale 13 Jan 2025
Cilantica agasthyaensis is one of the new species included in a new genus of trantulas from the Western Ghats. Image courtesy of Zeeshan Mirza.

New tarantulas described from the Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025
P. Gowri Shankar with a king cobra in Agumbe

Behind the discovery of four kings

Shailesh Shrivastava 7 Jan 2025

Government eyes recognising non-protected conservation areas to meet biodiversity goals

Simrin Sirur 6 Jan 2025
Madhya Pradesh, known as the Tiger State, has the highest number of tigers among all states in the country. Image by Vikas Sulya.

Teething troubles or conservation challenges at India’s latest tiger reserve?

Deshdeep Saxena 2 Jan 2025

[Commentary] Community-based conservation can help achieve 30×30 biodiversity target

Pijush Kumar Dutta 20 Dec 2024

Farms, fields threaten frogs in lateritic plateaus

Arathi Menon 19 Dec 2024

[Commentary] Rooted in art and science, “natural history” carries a legacy of evolution

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 9 Dec 2024

How a smoked fish tradition sustains an ethnic group in Bhutan

Choki Wangmo 2 Dec 2024
Image shows a watercolour of a tree

[Book review] Ancient giants make for great stories

Usha Rai 14 Nov 2024

With local support, a tributary comes to life 

Nikhil Sreekandan 13 Nov 2024