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The search for the Jerdon’s courser needs to be deepened [Commentary]

Ronith Urs 8 Sep 2025

A push for the bush frog

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 2025

Scientists turn to speed breeding to develop resilient, high yield crops

Hirra Azmat 2 Sep 2025
Kuribeel in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of the Office of the Field Director, Manas Tiger Reserve. 

Two decades after civil unrest, wildlife makes a steady recovery

Shailesh Shrivastava 1 Sep 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2025
Nyenchen Tanglha peak in central Tibet. Image by McKay Savage via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

The tectonic journey of the roof of the world [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 18 Aug 2025
A Russel's viper. Image by CHANDRANUJ via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A single pill to fight the fang

Arathi Menon 4 Jul 2025
A farmer harvests paddy. Representative image by Indranil Gayan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India gets two genome-edited rice varieties

Arathi Menon 2 Jul 2025
Heavy rain and flooding in Hyderabad. Image by Rajib Ghosh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

District level mapping of climate extremes

Arathi Menon 25 Jun 2025
A carabid beetle. One study by scientists that are part of the DarkDivNet network that assessed plants, fungi and carabid beetles in Estonia found that dark diversity was greater than observed diversity within all groups. Representative image by Bernard Dupont via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Absent species that ought to be present

T. V. Padma 20 Jun 2025
Various specimens of insects on display at the Insect Biosystematics and Conservation Lab. Image by Abhishek N. Chinnappa.

A study centre for little things that run the world

Arathi Menon 18 Mar 2025
Cilantica agasthyaensis is one of the new species included in a new genus of trantulas from the Western Ghats. Image courtesy of Zeeshan Mirza.

New tarantulas described from the Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

Meet DiCaprio’s Himalayan serpent

Neha Jain 3 Jan 2025

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025

Making sense of the environment: Explainers in 2024

Aditi Tandon 31 Dec 2024

Science welcomed multiple new species in 2024

Arathi Menon 30 Dec 2024

Can invisible solar fences prevent elephant-human conflicts in Valparai?

Gowthami Subramaniam 26 Dec 2024

Must-watch videos from 2024: Mongabay India staff picks

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Dec 2024

Farms, fields threaten frogs in lateritic plateaus

Arathi Menon 19 Dec 2024

Why do dung beetles matter to climate change?

Angana Chakrabarti 19 Dec 2024