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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
Duttaphyrnus phawngpui sp. nov. Image courtesy of Dawngliana et al.

New toad species described in northeast mountain tops

Divya Kilikar 30 Sep 2026
A snow leopard in Kaza, Himachal Pradesh. Image by Bharath Kumar Venkatesh via Pexels.

The ghost of the mountains

Team Mongabay-India 23 Sep 2026
Pollution chokes the perennial Rispana river which flows through Dehradun. Image by Kenyum Bagra.

Monsoon amplifies antibiotic resistance gene levels in river water used by residents

Lekha Bandopadhyay 21 Sep 2026

Reviving Himachal’s traditional Kath-Kuni homes to beat the heat

Rachna Verma 17 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
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 snow leopard in the Himalayas. Image by Prasenjeet Yadav.

Snow leopards and their survival in changing times [Book Review]

Usha Rai 8 Sep 2026
Survivors walk past a house damaged by flash floods on the banks of Trishuli river in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal on September 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Why is disaster risk increasing in the Himalayas? [Explainer]

Max Martin 8 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
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
Drang Drung glacier in the Zanskar Himalayas. Image by Andrew Mackintosh.

Ladakh glaciers losing speed as ice melts, new study warns

Simrin Sirur 18 Aug 2026
A male Nagami mithun. Image by Harshit Kumar.

Genetic study of the Arunachali mithun flags declining breeding population

Barasha Das 13 Aug 2026
One of the world's rarest pheasants, the western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival, but faces growing pressure from habitat degradation and human disturbance. Image by Jainy Maria.

Himalayan pheasants face mounting human pressure

Hirra Azmat 11 Aug 2026
The first confirmed photographic evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Sikkim. Image courtesy of Forest & Environment Department, Sikkim, and WWF-India.

Rare lynx photo puts spotlight on high-altitude rangelands

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 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
Saplings being carried for plantation. Image by Pushpendra Rana.

A machine learning-powered chatbot to guide tree plantation in the Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 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
Image by Harlequeen via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

The rusty-coated bamboo muncher

Team Mongabay-India 8 Jul 2026