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Growing pains accompanied by a growing love of the wild [Book Review]

Nandhini Somasundaram 22 Jul 2025
A gharial and its offspring. At temperatures of around 32°C, a majority of hatchlings may develop into males, while temperatures below 31.5°C and above 33.5°C will see female production dominate. Image by Surya P Sharma.

Rising temperatures could change the future for India’s gharials

Sneha Mahale 11 Jul 2025
Wadha Koli labourers set up mounds of Prosopis juliflora wood to be used for charcoal production. Image by Divyajyoti Ganguly/Sahjeevan.

Looking at invasives beyond the ecological lens [Commentary]

Divyajyoti Ganguly 23 Jun 2025
The Tungabhadra river in Hampi, Karnataka. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

A fascinating book on India’s rivers and their travails [Book Review]

Usha Rai 18 Jun 2025
A biodiversity awareness session with devotees at Mahakumbh Mela, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Image © Anshul Bhawsar.

Education is a powerful tool for biodiversity conservation [Commentary]

Nidhi Singh, Sangeeta Angom 9 Jun 2025
Coffee and tea agroforests in the Anamalai Hills, with the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in the background. Image by Pooja Choksi.

How trees outside forests impact human well-being

Aisiri Amin 5 Jun 2025

Sexing by sound: How deconstructed sarus crane duets could help scientists

Kartik Chandramouli 4 Jun 2025
Glyptothorax himalaicus, one of the two newly described catfish species from the Ganges river basin. Image by Balaji Vijayakrishnan.

Newly described catfish species spotlight Himalayan river biodiversity

Nikhil Sreekandan 27 May 2025
Saplings of the genus Beilschmiedia. As many nurseries still struggle to supply adequate stocks of native plants, this database can help plan large-scale ecological restoration. Image by Vaishnavi Suresh.

Native plant germination database sows seeds of change

Sneha Mahale 21 May 2025
A Jerdon's bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus crassus) spotted in Coochbehar, West Bengal. When it rains, this species is one of many that sings. Image by Kingshuk Mondal via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Listening to frogs can offer clues to their decline [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 5 May 2025

Declining waders indicate deterioration of wetlands

Sneha Mahale 3 Apr 2025
Bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande and technologist Vedant Barje with the BatEchoMon system installed by them. Image by Vivek Hasyagar.

Automating bat detection for more efficient monitoring and data collection

Aisiri Amin 2 Apr 2025

An ode to joy: remembering Ajith Kumar [Obituary]

Divya Karnad 10 Mar 2025

Uniting traditional wisdom with modern science, barefoot ecologists record climate impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 14 Aug 2024

[Commentary] On the trail of the Wayanad landslide

C.P. Rajendran 9 Aug 2024

Lesson from Wayanad: State needs disaster mitigation rather than a disaster management strategy

Saritha S. Balan 2 Aug 2024

[Book Review] Didi Contractor’s journey through ecologically-sensitive architecture

Nandita Jayaraj 30 Jul 2024

[Interview] “This is in honour of adivasis fighting for their land, water, forest,” says Goldman Prize winner Alok Shukla

Simrin Sirur 30 Apr 2024

[Interview] Ecologist and policy expert S. Faizi advocates for putting ‘justice’ at the heart of conservation

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 2 Apr 2024

[Interview] In ‘Shades of Blue’, ecologists explore the murky future of India’s urban waters

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 7 Nov 2023