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Bihar’s green budget expands, but environmental indicators show little progress

Umesh Kumar Ray 31 Jul 2026
Lateral view of a specimen of Pseudecheneis likimroensis. Image courtesy of Zoological Survey of India.

A newly-described fish sheds light on a biodiversity blind spot

Monish Upadhyay 31 Jul 2026

The wild cat with a unique stripe pattern

Team Mongabay-India 29 Jul 2026
A new trapdoor spider species, Tigidia singhal, from the Deccan Plateau. Image by Prasad Bolde.

New-to-science spider highlights importance of open natural ecosystems

Ananya Singh 28 Jul 2026
A yellow-throated fulvetta, a common species at middle elevations in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary. This bird forms large flocks that co-operatively glean insects off shrubbery. Because leaf-dwelling insects remain seasonally stable, leaf-gleaners like the fulvetta are largely non-migratory. Image by Tarun Menon.

Insects may be guiding seasonal bird movements in the eastern Himalayas, study finds

Manjeera Gowravaram 28 Jul 2026
A rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus). Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Roads a risk to the world’s smallest wild cat

Nikhil Sreekandan 27 Jul 2026
Fishers tend their gear at Saude Beach in Kochi. Image by Robert Bociaga/Mongabay.

West coast fishers confront ‘ghost gear’ problem

Robert Bociaga 23 Jul 2026
A great hornbill carries food to her nest. Image by Angadachappa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Farmers of the forest

Team Mongabay-India 22 Jul 2026
Antaram idukki, discovered in Kerala’s Idukki district. Image by Md. Jafer Palot.

A lone moth leads the discovery of a new genus

Arathi Menon 22 Jul 2026

Dolphins tread the waters between tourist boats and fishing nets

Sneha Mahale 21 Jul 2026
Conocarpus erectus saplings. Representative image by TreeWorld Wholesale via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Why is Conocarpus being banned across states? [Explainer]

Nikhil Sreekandan 20 Jul 2026

Important shark, ray habitats in India are still unprotected

Rupsy Khurana 20 Jul 2026

Tribal council calls recognition of forest rights on Great Nicobar Island ‘false’

Simrin Sirur 17 Jul 2026
A blackbuck at the Bagepalli plantation. Image courtesy of ATREE.

Cities need tailored restoration, not mass tree planting

Arathi Menon 17 Jul 2026
A pod of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins photographed from above off the Sindhudurg-Goa coast. Image by Imran Samad.

Finless porpoises are disappearing before they are counted

Mansab Sayyad 16 Jul 2026
A cicada in Kodagu, Karnataka. Image by Ljain19 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The insect that makes forests sing

Team Mongabay-India 15 Jul 2026
A man sells neem sticks and leaves in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

The neem patent case and India’s next battle over traditional knowledge [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Sarvesh J.P., G. Ravikanth 14 Jul 2026
The World Cup cicada (Chremistica ribhoi). Image by Nabarun Guha.

The insect that syncs up with the football World Cup

Nabarun Guha 14 Jul 2026
Many women from the Irular community depend on seasonal brackish pools around the Kovalam-Nemmeli backwaters for their livelihood. Imge by Smitha T.K.

Fishers, naturalists worry about the impacts of turning a coastal wetland into a reservoir

Smitha T.K. 13 Jul 2026
A hill myna. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why looking at trees is a type of rebellion [Book Review]

Aarushi Agrawal 13 Jul 2026