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DNA test cracks the case of mistaken quails

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jul 2025
The rusty-spotted cat known as the hummingbird of cats falls in the ‘Near Threatened’ category in the IUCN Red List . Photo by Radheshyam Bishnoi

Jungle cat most widespread, rusty-spotted cat declining, finds national survey

Manish Chandra Mishra 29 Jul 2025

India’s first hornbill conservation centre announced

Simrin Sirur 24 Jul 2025
A Trypanophora sp. moth seen near Kolkata. Representative image by Santosh Roy.

When a campus turns beacon for moths [Commentary]

Santosh Roy 24 Jul 2025

Indian species, Gondwanan roots [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 21 Jul 2025

Global rift over plant treaty as key issues remain unresolved

Kundan Pandey 18 Jul 2025

A new biopark to expand urban green cover

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
A kestrel perched on a pole in Bengaluru. These birds are more common in the outskirts of the city. Image by Jagdish Krishnaswamy.

How urban birds respond to heat and green cover

Anusha Krishnan 9 Jul 2025
A man makes chapatis in Mara village, Morena district, Madhya Pradesh. The SDG on affordable and clean energy shows moderate improvement. Image by Yann Forget via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

India improves performance on SDGs but lags on environment

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 4 Jul 2025
A carabid beetle. One study by scientists that are part of the DarkDivNet network that assessed plants, fungi and carabid beetles in Estonia found that dark diversity was greater than observed diversity within all groups. Representative image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Absent species that ought to be present

T. V. Padma 20 Jun 2025
Image of Maruti Chitampalli by All India Radio. Representative image of Melghat Tiger Reserve by Ankitfunk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maruti Chitampalli, the forest’s living encyclopedia, dies at 93 [Obituary]

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 Jun 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025

Citizen science reveals lesser known invasive pest

Arathi Menon 16 May 2025
A herd of musk deer, which are endangered, cross a road near Gangotri National Park in Uttarakhand. The state reported 93% of all restoration interventions in the Western Himalayan region. Image by Surajit Das via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Unpacking three decades of restoration in the Western Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 16 May 2025
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