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Warmer winters in the Kashmir Valley are leading to early flowering of the gul toor

Hirra Azmat 25 Jan 2023
A fisher harvesting seaweed in the Philippines.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards are crucial to nature-based solutions, say critics

Sahana Ghosh 19 Jan 2023

Imprints: Digging up bones with Advait Jukar

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 6 Jan 2023

What’s for lunch? Elephants are picky eaters finds study in northern West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 3 Jan 2023
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[Explainer] Mass flowering and why some plants bloom and die together

Priya Ranganathan 29 Dec 2022
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Nations adopt Global Biodiversity Framework amid concerns over watered-down targets

Sahana Ghosh, Latoya Abulu 20 Dec 2022
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[Commentary] India needs community centred conservation governance, not ’30 by 30′ gatekeeping

Aditi Vajpeyi 15 Dec 2022
Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022
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India is pitching for a 30 by 30 vision at the Montreal biodiversity COP

Sahana Ghosh 7 Dec 2022

First dataset on tree-moss dwelling diatoms from Mizoram’s Blue Mountains

Sahana Ghosh 2 Dec 2022
A Miniopterus phillipsi.

A newly described cave bat in Sri Lanka indicates presence of more species

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Nov 2022
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Tinkering with saffron’s genetic makeup to develop climate resilience

Saniya Zahoor 23 Nov 2022

Tarballs dot India’s west coast annually, indicating continued oil spills, ship fuel discharge

Manjula Nair 21 Nov 2022

Large grass-munching herbivores can stabilise soil carbon

T. V. Padma 8 Nov 2022
Intentional burning of jhum gone out of control at a forest adjacent to Phalee, during Phalee Luita, a seed sowing festival. Photo by Shemchon Awungshi, Phalee BMC.

[Commentary] Documenting the flora and fauna of Phalee to mitigate the impact of forest fires

Ng Ngashangva 7 Nov 2022
Dahisar in north Mumbai. Photo by Saumitra Shinde/Mongabay.

Mumbai activists demand that the tree geo-tagging information be made public

Hepzi Anthony 20 Oct 2022
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[Book Review] ‘First Steps’ tracks the beginnings of citizen science in India

Renuka Kulkarni 19 Oct 2022
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
Anaemia prevalence among women of reproductive age (15 to 49 years of age) will fall from 53% to 39.5% if India’s clean air targets are met. Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg/Wikimedia Commons.

Inhaling particulate matter is increasing the prevalence of anaemia among women of reproductive age

Sahana Ghosh 3 Oct 2022

The international treaty on plant genetics moves a step ahead with farmers’ rights and DSI

Kundan Pandey, Sahana Ghosh 30 Sep 2022