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The slender loris struggles to find canopy in Bengaluru

Mohit M. Rao 24 Sep 2020

Nature in peril as biodiversity losses mount alarmingly, states the Living Planet Report

Soumya Sarkar 16 Sep 2020

Punjab’s Mattewara forest and Sutlej river under threat from upcoming industrial park

Vivek Gupta 15 Sep 2020
Drought-like situations will become common if the deforestion is not curbed. Credits- Darshak Ithikkat

Rainfall in parts of Karnataka has reduced over decades

Kapil Kajal 2 Sep 2020

Elephants in north Bengal more likely to raid crops near fragmented forested patches

Ashvita Anand 18 Aug 2020

Leopards in Guwahati’s hills jostle for space

Nabarun Guha 10 Aug 2020

[Commentary] The palm oil value chain and India’s links with global deforestation

Neha Simlai 22 Jul 2020

Linear infrastructure severely affects large forest patches in India, finds study

Neha Jain 30 Jun 2020

Why do indigenous communities persist with practising shifting cultivation?

Aimee Gabay 22 Jun 2020

Forest official who complained about legal violations in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands loses duties

Mayank Aggarwal 12 Jun 2020

Environment ministry unlocked many protected areas during the lockdown

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 12 Jun 2020

Natural, biodiverse forests more reliable at fighting climate change than plantations

Neha Jain 25 May 2020

Uttarakhand eyes a part of Rajaji Tiger Reserve for Kumbh

Mayank Aggarwal 7 May 2020

Karnataka government okays rail line in the Western Ghats

Kapil Kajal 6 May 2020

Deforestation and disease: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases

T. V. Padma 1 Apr 2020

Orangutans go into starvation mode with forest fires in Indonesia, study finds

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Mar 2020

Spillover: encroachment into forests increases risk of contracting diseases from animals

Neha Jain 17 Feb 2020

Green cover of many Indian states rises but carbon stock declines

Kanchan Srivastava 29 Jan 2020

Forest-dependent communities of Odisha find LPG an unnecessary, unaffordable luxury

Pragati Prava 17 Jan 2020

[Analysis] The world’s primates face extinction, fuelled by global consumer demands

Alejandro Estrada, Paul A. Garber 14 Jan 2020