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A hoverfly spotted in Ladakh. Image courtesy of Geetha Iyer.

Flies are overlooked pollinators and farmers’ friends

Geetha Iyer 3 Aug 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 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 diggi in Jamal. Image by Partik Kumar.

Rethinking irrigation through farm ponds [Commentary]

Partik Kumar, Parul 27 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
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
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
Tso Moriri lake during the summer, when the lake thaws and vegetation grows. Image by Raghavan37 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In high altitude soils, microbes may be limiting the warming they trigger

Lekha Bandopadhyay 10 Jul 2026
A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
A fisherman at work at the Loktak Lake. Image by R.K. Neetu Sana.

Warming lake threatens fish habitats and the wetland economy

Barasha Das 7 Jul 2026
Aquatic plants dominate the water surface of Dal Lake. Image by Akhil Paul.

Scientists test turning aquatic weeds into liquid fertilisers

Hirra Azmat 7 Jul 2026
A beekeeper in the Nilgiris harvests honey from her hive. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

Indigenous women build new livelihoods with hive boxes

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2026