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Aerial views of Brahmaputra river. Photo by Ashwin Kumar/Wikimedia commons.

Ancient tree rings shed light on Brahmaputra’s flood risk

Sahana Ghosh 14 Jan 2021

Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020

Golden jackals make airports their homes

Gurvinder Singh 9 Dec 2020

[Photos] Erosion along Ganga’s riverbanks in West Bengal finds new victims

Tanmoy Bhaduri 2 Nov 2020

Fly ash in India: A free movement of toxicity to Bangladesh

Namrata Acharya 23 Oct 2020

Sundarbans endangered as per IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems framework, cautious optimism advised

Sahana Ghosh 17 Sep 2020

Splintered habitats may imperil egg-carrying butterflies

Sahana Ghosh 9 Sep 2020
Sundarban fishing in river 2 - photo Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

With depleting fish catch, Sundarbans fishers migrate to other coastal states

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2020

West Bengal fishermen observe fewer shrimp and fish deaths by pollution this year

Namrata Acharya 20 Aug 2020

Elephants in north Bengal more likely to raid crops near fragmented forested patches

Ashvita Anand 18 Aug 2020

Plastic waste from post Amphan relief material could add to pollution in Sundarbans

Gurvinder Singh 6 Aug 2020

Mapping conflict hotspots as leopards adapt to unlikely habitats outside protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jul 2020

Salt-tolerant rice, innovations help farmers deal with salinity in the Sundarbans

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 14 Jul 2020

[Photos] Scenes from the Sundarbans after Amphan

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 29 May 2020

Erosion, an important cause of mangrove loss in the Sundarbans

Sahana Ghosh 28 May 2020

Embankment politics, livelihood loss, pandemic, and other issues mount in Sundarbans

Sahana Ghosh 27 May 2020

West Bengal faces the brunt of Cyclone Amphan

Gurvinder Singh 26 May 2020

[Analysis] Cyclone Amphan puts focus back on millions displaced by climate disasters

Soumya Sarkar 25 May 2020

Caught between floods, protests and a pandemic, ecotourism operators bat for resilience

Sahana Ghosh 25 Mar 2020

Indian scientists building DNA database to protect the elusive red panda

Sahana Ghosh 24 Mar 2020