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Volunteers map avenue trees as part of I Change Indiranagar's tree-mapping exercise. Image by Kannan A.S.

Citizens push back infrastructure projects that threaten green cover

Sohel Sarkar 29 Oct 2026
A manta ray. Image by Svetlana Obysova via Pexels.

Winged wayfarers of the ocean

Team Mongabay-India 28 Oct 2026
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 26 Oct 2026
A marine iguana. Image by RAF-YCC via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

How Columbus’ voyages accelerated the homogenisation of Earth’s biodiversity [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Oct 2026
Male blackbucks fight at Sagareshwar Wildlife Sanctuary. Image by Inside Indian Jungle via Flickr (CC PDM 1.0).

The endurance runner of the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 21 Oct 2026
Hippocampus amandavincentae is thought to be endemic to the Indian Ocean. Image by Daniela De Angelis.

New-to-science seahorse is one of three long-misidentified species

Ananya Singh 20 Oct 2026
A spintail devil ray. Representative image by Julien Renoult via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Small-scale fisheries a big threat to rays

Rupsy Khurana 19 Oct 2026
Gitchak nakana possesses a transparent body characteristic of groundwater dwelling fishes. Image by Ralf Britz.

Two new-to-science subterranean fishes reveal a hidden world underneath

Monish Upadhyay 19 Oct 2026

Light may influence morning basking behaviour in captive gharials

Lekha Bandopadhyay 16 Oct 2026
Canadian horseweed or Erigeron canadensis photographed in North America. Image by Aaron Volkening via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Invaders get better at competition in introduced ranges: Study

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2026
A sloth bear in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary. Image by Bikash Das via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

The bear that evolved to hunt ants

Team Mongabay-India 14 Oct 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in the Rupnarayan river. Image by Abdul Wakid.

Ganges river dolphins may synchronise their activity with time, tides and the moon

Sneha Mahale 12 Oct 2026
A fish swims through bleached coral reefs in Caribbean waters near Panama in August this year. Representative image. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

Max Martin 9 Oct 2026
A moth camouflaged against L. pertusa lichen. Image by Sanjay Kumar Unniyal.

Study identifies rare case of moth and lichen association

Arathi Menon 8 Oct 2026
An ibisbill tagged and fitted with satellite PTT. Image by Khursheed Ahmad.

Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom

Hirra Azmat 5 Oct 2026
A tiger marks its scent by spraying urine on a tree in Kanha National Park. Image by David V. Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Odours offer new clues in monitoring big cats

Sneha Mahale 24 Sep 2026

Community-based mangrove monitoring should compliment satellite data [Commentary]

Utchimahali Mariappan 22 Sep 2026

As tigers spill beyond reserves, India rethinks conservation

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026
A Himalayan snowcock. Image courtesy of Himachal Pradesh Forest Department and Nature Conservation Foundation.

High-altitude bird hotspots remain outside protected areas

Kasturi Das 17 Sep 2026

The crane that loves a duet

Team Mongabay-India 16 Sep 2026