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The last Indian town before Bhutan is reeling under waste dumped on its river banks

Chandrani Sinha 25 Mar 2026
A view of the Tarapur MIDC in Boisar. Image by Meena Menon.

Oleum leak puts spotlight on safety and pollution in a chemical hub

Meena Menon 16 Mar 2026
National Disaster Response Force personnel conduct a rescue operation at the site of the explosion at Baghjan, Tinsukia district, Assam on June 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Partha Sarathi Das)

A new book documents voices from the Baghjan disaster

Nabarun Guha 19 Feb 2026
An orangutan with offspring in Betung Kerihun National Park, Indonesia. Representative image by Sabar Minsyah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

CITES withdraws recommendation to suspend trade of endangered species to India

Simrin Sirur 25 Nov 2025
A female bonobo. Representative image by Hans Hillewaert via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India defends animal imports, calls wildlife governance ‘unmatched’

Simrin Sirur 14 Nov 2025
A stone quarry in Mangaluru, Karnataka. Representative image by Ravimum via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Quarries devour buffer forests of Western Ghats after sand mining ban

Max Martin 11 Nov 2025

Court submission challenges ‘confidential’ report on the Great Nicobar Island plan

Simrin Sirur 27 Aug 2025
The recent deaths of a female tiger and her four cubs in the Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary comes as a blow to tiger conservation. It reveals lapses in forest protection, unchecked livestock grazing, and brewing human-animal conflict in the landscape. Representative image of tiger cubs by Gurdeep Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tiger deaths reveal conservation challenges

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Jul 2025
Aerial view of sand mining. The Supreme Court’s verdict striking down the 2017 and 2021 amnesties for environmental violations has significant legal and commercial implications for companies and infrastructure projects. Image by Saiphani02 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Upholding the law, Supreme Court halts amnesties for EIA violators, jolts industry

Akshay Deshmane 10 Jun 2025

Otters face heat from smugglers in northeast India

Nabarun Guha 2 Jul 2024
A lion in Gir National Park.

A new web tool offers ways to trace where illegal lion parts come from

Malavika Vyawahare 15 Jan 2024

Intercepting the illegal capture of migratory birds in south-central West Bengal

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2 Nov 2023
Image shows a tiger in a forest

Tiger poaching network, that spread from west to east India, busted

Nabarun Guha 11 Sep 2023

Countries resolve to protect cetaceans from marine plastic pollution

Sharada Balasubramanian 30 Dec 2022

Editor’s review 2022: A warmer Arabian Sea, energy transition and a search for economic value

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 24 Dec 2022
Barnamali Malik along with other fishermen prepares to venture into the Kharasrota river to catch fish. They returned home empty handed after a seven-hour long sail. Photo by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Illegal fish poisoning threatens traditional fishers in Odisha; authorities say no complaints since 2020

Aishwarya Mohanty 6 Oct 2022

West Africa’s illegal online bird trade finds most buyers in South Asia

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jul 2022

Global illegal trade and farming flourish amid tiger conservation efforts

Sharon Guynup 17 Jun 2022
Illegal logging in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis will hit country’s environment and conservation hard, experts warn

Malaka Rodrigo 16 May 2022

[Interview] Renewable energy goals can’t be met by excluding people or making them hostile, say founders of LIFE

Mayank Aggarwal 25 Oct 2021