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People and the politics of contest, construction and compensation

Satish Bhartiya 16 Sep 2026
Vegetable vendors use Parthenium leaves to line vegetable baskets. Image by Barasha Das.

The itchy spread of Parthenium

Barasha Das 15 Sep 2026
Houses damaged by recent flash floods stand amid thick layers of sludge, mud and debris in Nepal's Nuwakot district, September 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Nepal’s flood claim tests whether a nascent climate fund can deliver

Kundan Pandey 14 Sep 2026

Researchers rediscover an endemic plant after 180 years

Nabarun Guha 14 Sep 2026
The construction site of the Hebbal short tunnel. Image by Sohel Sarkar.

Bengaluru’s Hebbal tunnel raises concerns about groundwater and flooding

Sohel Sarkar 11 Sep 2026
A coal block in Hasdeo. Even today, approximately 75% of India’s total energy consumption is met by coal-based thermal power plants. Image by Alok Prakash Putul/Mongabay.

Centre tightens grip over mineral taxation, states cry foul

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2026
People stand on remnants of a bridge which spanned across Trishuli river and was washed away in flash floods, in Dhading district. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s flood disaster puts its hydropower-first strategy, exports to the test

Rudra Pangeni 10 Sep 2026
A customer buys caged birds at a pet market in Kolkata, West Bengal. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Your exotic pet could be putting your health at risk

Arathi Menon 10 Sep 2026
A red-naped ibis in Udaipur. Image by Vijay Kumar Koli.

Red-naped ibises carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds

Sneha Mahale 9 Sep 2026
A snow leopard in the Himalayas. Image by Prasenjeet Yadav.

Snow leopards and their survival in changing times [Book Review]

Usha Rai 8 Sep 2026
Survivors walk past a house damaged by flash floods on the banks of Trishuli river in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal on September 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Why is disaster risk increasing in the Himalayas? [Explainer]

Max Martin 8 Sep 2026
A tiger in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, from where tigers disperse to Kawal Tiger Reserve. Image by A.J.T Johnsingh, WWF-India & NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The tiger reserve with abundant prey but no resident tigers

Nivedhika Krishnan 8 Sep 2026
Site of worship for Baphlibudhi, matriarch goddess of the Baphlimali Hills and presiding deity of the region. Image by Minati Dash.

Bauxite mining transforms living hills into emptiness [Commentary]

Minati Dash, Patrik Oskarsson 7 Sep 2026
A policeman alerts people standing on a bridge to return to higher ground over the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Community-based warning saves lives during Nepal floods

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Sep 2026

Little is known about this flycatcher that migrates across the country every year

Hirra Azmat 7 Sep 2026
Rama Shankar with his family's cattle in Doda Mafi village. Image by Shivam Bhardwaj.

The grass is greener only on paper

Shivam Bhardwaj 4 Sep 2026
A farmer sets fire to crop residue on the out skirts of Jalandhar, Punjab. (AP Photo)

Crop-residue burning, a major contributor to black carbon pollution: Study

Nikhil Sreekandan 3 Sep 2026
A farmer stands on a parched paddy field near Jammu in 2014. Representative image. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

El Niño brings drought declaration into sharper focus

Simrin Sirur 3 Sep 2026

Reduced exposure to nature is linked to immune system diseases [Commentary]

Irfan Shakeer, Ayisha Farseena 3 Sep 2026
Amphinomidae sp. bristle worms. Image by Moumita Bhowmik.

A world of bristles beneath the waves

Nikhil Sreekandan 1 Sep 2026