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[Book review] Environment and economics: linkages that could make or break our post-pandemic world

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 2 Jan 2024
Groups of four women form a forest patrol team in Kodalpalli village in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.

The Forest Rights Act sees outcome in a women-led forest stewardship scheme in Odisha

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Nov 2023
A common wood pigeon.

Researchers in Nepal still puzzled over the super flock of pigeons last winter

Abhaya Raj Joshi 1 Nov 2023
A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank in Sundarban Tiger Reserve in India.

Bangladesh’s tiger conservation efforts win with rise in population in the Sundarbans

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2023

Low, middle income countries have deficits in infrastructure, but high risk of destruction from disasters

Simrin Sirur 18 Oct 2023

India needs customised climate projections rather than IPCC reports: study

Arathi Menon 3 Oct 2023

In Nepal, vulture colonies seen to hold stable amid old and new threats

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Oct 2023
A Theocostele alata flower.

Loss of orchid species in Bangladesh is “alarming,” say researchers

Farhana Parvin 6 Sep 2023
A male gharial with its distinctive ‘ghara.’

The endangered gharial’s conservation crisis highlighted after death of a male in Nepal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Aug 2023

[Interview] Ocean processes influence monsoon, but it’s not always climate change, says M.N. Rajeevan

Max Martin 8 Aug 2023
A girl in a flooded area in Pakistan

Flooding caused the greatest economic damages in Asia in 2022, says WMO report

Simrin Sirur 2 Aug 2023
A swimming tiger.

Fences could be a solution for Bangladesh’s human-tiger conflict in the Sundarbans

Rafiqul Islam 28 Jul 2023

Himalayas losing glaciers and snow: more hazards in the offing, a new study finds

Arathi Menon 25 Jul 2023

[Explainer] As heat waves increase, are India’s Heat Action Plans effective?

Zoya Ada Hussain 24 Jul 2023
A tiger peeking over grass.

Tigers struggle to move within Nepal even as they cross borders: study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2023

With a Russell’s viper and snakebite resurgence, Bangladesh looks to developing antivenom

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2023

Call to save rare snake habitat follows red coral kukri sightings in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 31 May 2023

With heat waves projected to worsen across India, do vulnerability assessments and heat action plans suffice?

T. V. Padma 23 May 2023

Nepal comes next in line to Sri Lanka to debate exporting ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 May 2023

This year’s severe heatwave, a threat to the people and food supply in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 8 May 2023