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As wars reshape priorities, climate cooperation faces a test at the UN Climate Summit

Soumya Sarkar 6 Nov 2026

UN Loss and Damage Fund provisionally approves $21.6 million for flood-hit Nepal

Simrin Sirur 26 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
A captive orangutan infant. Indonesian authorities call for processes to be set in place to combat international illegal wildlife trade. Representative image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

One orangutan goes home. Will the five babies follow?

Arathi Menon 19 Oct 2026
A pet African grey parrot in Yercaud, Tamil Nadu. More than 40,000 people in India have declared their exotic pets. By law, pet owners must register possession, transfer, birth and death of species listed in the Wild Life (Protection) Act. Representative image by Yercaud-elango via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Legal system fails to keep pace with India’s growing exotic pet industry

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2026

NGOs call for permanent moratorium on animal imports to Vantara

Simrin Sirur 25 Sep 2026
A male tiger in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve. Image by Koshy Koshy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

India postpones Cambodia tiger reintroduction

Arathi Menon 24 Sep 2026
An orangutan seized by YOSL-OIC in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Panut Hadisiswoyo.

As exotic primates reach India, welfare concerns grow

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026
A view of the Himalayas and Indus river in Pakistan, April 1968. The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960. (AP Photo/JMG)

Indus Waters Treaty needs modernisation, experts say amid deadlock

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2026
Labourers carry firewood, as smoke rises from a bricks factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

BRICS declaration calls for climate action while recognising fossil fuel role

Kundan Pandey 15 Sep 2026
People stand on remnants of a bridge which spanned across Trishuli river and was washed away in flash floods, in Dhading district. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s flood disaster puts its hydropower-first strategy, exports to the test

Rudra Pangeni 10 Sep 2026
A policeman alerts people standing on a bridge to return to higher ground over the swollen Trishuli river in Galchhi, Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Community-based warning saves lives during Nepal floods

Abhaya Raj Joshi 7 Sep 2026
People walk past damage in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat in Nuwakot district, Nepal on August 27. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal disaster reinforces the need for regional preparedness

Joydeep Gupta 28 Aug 2026
Kuntal Saha, lead author of the study spots Cynodon nlemfuensis on a field trip in the Kashmir Himalaya, near Gulmarg. Image courtesy of Kuntal Saha.

A study on African Bermuda-grass highlights gaps in bioinvasion policy

Lekha Bandopadhyay 24 Aug 2026
Invasive giant African snails spotted in Kerala. Image by Drajay1976 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Invasives impact in Global South needs more attention

Arathi Menon 14 Aug 2026
A pair of bar-headed geese in flight. They migrate from Central Asia to India in large flocks during the winter. Image by Hari K. Patibanda via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

New clues into how animals evolved an internal compass to navigate Earth

Nupur Fangaria 7 Aug 2026
A sugarcane field in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

India’s ethanol push moves from the pump to the field, raising water and food questions

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Jul 2026

Measuring development through wellbeing, sustainability and more [Commentary]

Soumya Swaminathan, Oliver King EDI 20 Jul 2026
Labourers work in an iron and steel factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Trade liberalisation meets carbon tariffs as India eyes EU market [Commentary]

Soutrik Goswami, Isha Sharma 30 Jun 2026