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Achyut Kumar Banerjee on curating a database of invasive plants in India [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 6 Nov 2025

ISRO-NASA radar to offer a closer look at Earth’s changing landscapes

Max Martin 5 Nov 2025
Vulture nest numbers have sharply declined in recent years, from 23 occupied nests in 2019 to just one in both 2022 and 2023, across two cliff-nesting colonies in the Kaghaznagar Forest Division and adjoining parts of the Deccan Plateau, at the junction of Telangana, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh. Image by Ravikanth Manchiryala.

Deccan’s vultures in decline

Sneha Mahale 4 Nov 2025
Salim Ali's first scientific paper was on the nesting of the baya or common weaverbird. His work is a testament to the fact that good science can rise from unexpected beginnings. Image by B. Vinoth.

A lifetime of watching birds with a pencil, paper and patience [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 28 Oct 2025
A capped langur at Bordubi. Image by Neeharika Gogoi.

Fragmented forests and food scarcity threaten capped langurs

Kasturi Das 25 Sep 2025

Rare dhole sighting a reminder of unexpected biodiversity in Pune’s landscapes

Aditi Tandon 22 Sep 2025
A view of the grassland in Dachigam National Park. Image by Umer Ikhlaq.

Study reveals ecological dynamics of Himalayan grasslands

Arathi Menon 19 Sep 2025

Caracal’s comeback sparks hope in conservation

Arathi Menon 17 Sep 2025

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