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‘We cannot hold peace talks at gunpoint’: Security build-up deepens distrust over dam

Ranju Dodum 6 Nov 2026
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 26 Oct 2026
A golden mahseer in a free-flowing, unobstructed stretch of the Ganga before the Srinagar dam. Maintaining these clear, uninterrupted waterways is critical for the survival, seasonal migration, and genetic variability of Himalayan megafish. Image by Saurabh Dewan.

Community models could help conserve the disappearing migratory freshwater fish [Commentary]

Saurabh Dewan 23 Oct 2026
A taxi on the move in Kolkata, West Bengal. A global air-monitoring study quantified tyre-derived chemicals in the air using passive samplers. Kolkata ranked first among all global cities in diphenylguanidine concentration. Image by Dharamveer via Pexels.

The toxic tyre chemical no one is measuring

Lakshmi Nilakantan 22 Oct 2026

As the Ganga treaty nears expiry, renewed concerns over water sharing arise

Umesh Kumar Ray 16 Oct 2026

Light may influence morning basking behaviour in captive gharials

Lekha Bandopadhyay 16 Oct 2026
Protests against the SUMP in Upper Siang held last week. Image by special arrangement.

Assembly ban imposed in Upper Siang, protesters detained under UAPA

Simrin Sirur 14 Oct 2026
A Ganges river dolphin in the Rupnarayan river. Image by Abdul Wakid.

Ganges river dolphins may synchronise their activity with time, tides and the moon

Sneha Mahale 12 Oct 2026

Protests over dam heat up as crackdown on activists continues

Simrin Sirur 5 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
Declared a national project in 2014, the Polavaram project is funded by the union government, with Andhra Pradesh carrying out the construction. Image courtesy of Polavaram Project Authority.

Unclear records leave villages in limbo over irrigation project displacement

Ayushi Sharma 2 Oct 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
Geeta Devi mud house remains partially submerged in flood water. She worries how long it would hold. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Floods affect millions in Bihar despite rainfall deficit

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 Sep 2026
A view of the Himalayas and Indus river in Pakistan, April 1968. The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960. (AP Photo/JMG)

Indus Waters Treaty needs modernisation, experts say amid deadlock

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2026

People and the politics of contest, construction and compensation

Satish Bhartiya 16 Sep 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
Smooth-coated otters. Image by Anirnoy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Whiskered swimmers with webbed feet

Team Mongabay-India 5 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

Major mugger habitats lie outside protected areas

Sneha Mahale 6 Jul 2026

Forest clearance for dam puts white-bellied herons at risk

Simrin Sirur 19 Jun 2026