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How the Sikkim flood drowned farming and fishing opportunities in northern West Bengal

Arunima Kar 1 Mar 2024

Trash doesn’t go waste at this “broken fair”

Joymala Bagchi 23 Feb 2024

Restaurants fuelling demand for shark meat in India, finds study

Simrin Sirur 24 Jan 2024

[Commentary] Erratic weather, altered social dynamics disrupt mahua economy in eastern India

Abhijit Dey, Joydeep Chakraborty 29 Nov 2023

Mistaken identity becomes a major threat for India’s small wild cats

Shailesh Shrivastava 15 Nov 2023
Image shows a man on a motorbike looking at a plant

Increasing knowledge of non-timber forest products for conservation

Ashvita Anand 6 Nov 2023

Intercepting the illegal capture of migratory birds in south-central West Bengal

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 2 Nov 2023

Promised rehabilitation eludes residents living near one of India’s earliest coal mines

Geetika Mishra 4 Aug 2023

Solar pumps offer financial relief to West Bengal farmers, but growth is slow

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 30 Jun 2023

Kolkata attempts to eliminate ‘legacy waste’ in landfills through biomining

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 26 Jun 2023
Image shows an aerial view of Sundarbans

Pinpointing priority areas for mangrove conservation in the Sundarbans

T. V. Padma 13 Feb 2023
Hilsa Breeding Center at Farakka. The hatchery has been built upstream by taking in possession of two ponds from the authorities. Photo by Rahul Singh.

Challenges abound to conserve the popular hilsa fish

Rahul Singh 17 Jan 2023

What’s for lunch? Elephants are picky eaters finds study in northern West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 3 Jan 2023
A woman returns from collecting the wood of the dead mangroves from the forest. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/ Mongabay.

Lack of resources slow embankment construction in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 11 Nov 2022

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022
Image shows a rhino in a grassland in India

[Commentary] What does the DNA say about the future of the rhino in India?

Amit Sharma, Samrat Mondol, Tista Ghosh 11 Oct 2022
The Indian Sundarbans in West Bengal. Mangrove saplings planted this year, alongside dead mangrove plants, at Mousuni Island. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/Mongabay.

The reality of saving young mangroves in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 6 Sep 2022
40% of the Sundarbans support short-statured mangroves which were widely affected by cyclone Amphan.

Recording mangrove damage from cyclones in the Sundarbans

Sahana Ghosh 27 Jun 2022

Time capsules in fish ears that unpack responses to climate change

Sahana Ghosh 9 Jun 2022

How the Sundarbans missed an opportunity to harness solar energy

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 2 Jun 2022