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Indian grey mongoose was one of the animals captured by the camera traps in the cashew nut plantations. Photo by Anushka Rege.

Mammals use cashew plantations in the northern Western Ghats

Neha Jain 22 Apr 2021

Community restores grasslands in Lamkani, making the village drought-resilient

Vinaya Kurtkoti 8 Apr 2021
A home that flooded in Kerala in 2018. Photo by Dilshad Roshan/Wikimedia Commons.

Floods, cyclones caused maximum deaths by extreme weather events in past 50 years

Sahana Ghosh 9 Mar 2021

Industries violating coastal zone law can now get away with paying compensation

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Mar 2021

Meet the man conserving otters in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats

Neha Jain 11 Feb 2021

[Commentary] Restoring urban wetlands for a brighter future

Priya Ranganathan 2 Feb 2021

The missing chapter in wildlife rescue: crowd control

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 29 Jan 2021

World Wetlands Day: Celebrating the champions who protect our wetlands

Aditi Tandon 29 Jan 2021
A Chironomid (Chironomus plumosus). Certain Chironomids are hideouts of outbreak causing strains of the cholera bacterium. Photo by Entomart/Wikimedia Commons.

Hardy hideouts: Aquatic insects can forewarn cholera outbreaks

Sahana Ghosh 21 Jan 2021

A single-celled organism threatens the vast Arabian sea and the millions that depend on it

Malavika Vyawahare 20 Jan 2021
Large herds of nilgai can cause considerable damage to crops. Photo by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi.

[Commentary] Antelopes in my backyard

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi 19 Jan 2021

Urban projects, human settlements close in on Mumbai’s bird habitats

Hepzi Anthony 13 Jan 2021
Leopard in BR_Hills

India records increase in leopard population but real number could be much more

Manish Chandra Mishra, Mayank Aggarwal 30 Dec 2020
The gaur passed through densely populated and constructed areas. Photo by Center for Citizen Science

Two gaurs in Pune and a lesson in urban wildlife management

Shatakshi Gawade 24 Dec 2020

Returning to traditional practices to save Vidarbha’s ‘Lake District’

Nivedita Khandekar 16 Dec 2020

Story of a river bed, a geological marvel and community pride

Manjula Nair 10 Dec 2020
Aditi Deodhar, founder-director of Jeevitnadi, empowers and mobilises citizens to conserve urban rivers of Pune such as the Mutha river, which has been plagued by pollution and untreated sewage. Illustration by Rohan Dahotre.

People power to clean up Pune river, bit by bit

Himanshu Nitnaware 2 Dec 2020

Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course

Tanvi Deshpande 23 Nov 2020
Banyan tree at Bhose village. Pic credit- Prakash Kantheshwarkar, resident

Govt, NGO, citizens join hands in Maharashtra to conserve heritage trees

Supriya Dedgaonkar 16 Nov 2020

A group of women protect Sindhudurg’s mangroves through ecotourism

Sneha Pillai 13 Nov 2020