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A green moray eel. Image by P. Lindgren via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

From diversity to monotony, ecological communities are homogenising

Trisha Putturaya, Guha Dharmarajan 9 Apr 2026

The desperate battle of Mizoram’s farmers with rats

Barasha Das, Surajit Sharma 19 Mar 2026
Tung seeds collected from growers being segregated at the Saitual District Tung Growers Association. Image by Robert Lalnuntluanga.

Farmers revive tung plantations amid market hopes and ecological concerns

Barasha Das 5 Mar 2026
A herd of elephants at a tea estate in Golaghat district, Assam. Representative image by Donvikro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study finds counterintuitive rise in elephant deaths after organised monitoring

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Mar 2026
A grassland in Dhule district, Maharashtra. Image by Yuvraj Shingate via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What traditional Marathi literature reveals about savannahs

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 4 Feb 2026
A commercial plantation for plywood production. Image by James Anderson, World Resources Institute via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Government opens up forest plantation to private sector, critics question its conservation value

Simrin Sirur 28 Jan 2026

India’s coconut belt battles whitefly crisis

Prasanth Shanmugasundaram 19 Jan 2026
Mangrove saplings being planted at a nursery in Kochi, Kerala. (AP Photo/Shawn Sebastian).

Mangrove restoration needs more than planting; it needs monitoring and data

Barasha Das 15 Jan 2026
The surveys revealed that low-elevation forests in the northern Western Ghats harbour unique biodiversity, with higher diversity of birds and reptiles than higher elevations. Image by Irvin Calicut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can climate change and human pressure favour deciduous forests?

Arathi Menon 9 Jan 2026
A tree plantation near Hanley showing flood irrigation of a willow-poplar mixed plantation in an otherwise dry steppe habitat. Image by Mayank Kohli.

Ladakh needs ecology-focused policy, not mass tree planting [Commentary]

Dawa Dolma 26 Nov 2025
The aim of BHGY is to increase the income of marginal farmers. The scheme is linked to carbon finance so that farmers can take proper care of their orchards. Image by TRIF.

Carbon markets fund plantations and livelihoods

Vishal Kumar Jain 8 Jul 2025
Tea gardens in Ooty, The Nilgiris, below which land is being prepared for growing vegetables. Silver oak trees provide the filtered shade that is perfect for tea. UPASI is currently exploring the possibility of growing fruit trees that can provide similar shade. Representative image by Timothy A. Gonsalves via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Intercropping as an ecological solution to tea demand drop

Arathi Menon 22 Apr 2025
Seeds of native trees being collected in a coffee agroforest. Image by Vijay Kumar.

Coffee agrofarms can play a key role in restoring degraded forest, study says

Simrin Sirur 17 Apr 2025

Pathogens find new pathways as agriculture, deforestation intensify

Arathi Menon 25 Apr 2024

Gujarat bans exotic Conocarpus tree amid health and environment hazard

Ronak Gajjar 16 Jan 2024

As lightning kills 12 in a day, Odisha proposes large-scale palm tree plantations

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Oct 2023

Wrong trees in wrong places wastes tree plantation budget, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 6 May 2022
The government of India has been trying to change how India’s forests are governed, especially the national forest policy, for at least six years now. Photo by Nandhu Kumar/ Pixabay.

India seeks synergy in rules governing its forests

Mayank Aggarwal 6 Apr 2022

Plantation on a barren hillock in West Bengal stops erosion, attracts birds

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 8 Mar 2022

Citizens attempt to revive mahua trees in Mumbai

Hepzi Anthony 18 Jan 2022