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A long-legged marsh glider, a dragonfly species. Image courtesy of Chatur Ullu Lab.

Western Ghats has high odonate endemism, reveals survey

Arathi Menon 28 May 2026
Excelsa coffee fruits at an estate in Kodagu district, Karnataka. Image courtesy of South India Coffee Company (SICC).

The search for climate resilient coffee in a warming world

Meena Menon 21 May 2026
Amblyceps vayavy, a new species of freshwater fish discovered from the Western Ghats. Image by Abhishek Shirke.

New-to-science catfish sheds light on west-flowing rivers of the Western Ghats

Lisann Dias 18 May 2026
A Kali night frog. Image by Aravind C.K.

New night frog comes to light in the Western Ghats

Arathi Menon 15 May 2026
Günther's Indian gecko. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Small creatures, big adaptations

Team Mongabay-India 22 Apr 2026
New growth emerging from a Neuracanthus plant following a surface fire, enclosed in Xerocoma, amid charred grassland vegetation. Image by Adittya Dharap.

Cottony coats and comebacks

Anusha Krishnan 24 Feb 2026
Madhav Gadgil at a school in Kasargod. Image by Harish Vasudevan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Madhav Gadgil: the hub of a wheel, the voice of the Ghats [Commentary]

John Kurien 18 Feb 2026

Celebrating the life and work of Madhav Gadgil

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Jan 2026
An adult female fishing spider. Image by Umesh Pavukandy.

Scientists describe a new fishing spider species

Rohini Karandikar 13 Jan 2026
The surveys revealed that low-elevation forests in the northern Western Ghats harbour unique biodiversity, with higher diversity of birds and reptiles than higher elevations. Image by Irvin Calicut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Can climate change and human pressure favour deciduous forests?

Arathi Menon 9 Jan 2026
Gadgil visits Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara, Maharashtra, in 2017. Image by Subodh Kulkarni via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Madhav Gadgil – a scientist, mentor and an institution builder [Obituary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 8 Jan 2026
Galaxy frogs in the Western Ghats. Image by K.P. Rajkumar/ZSL.

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jan 2026
A painted balloon frog at Mallathalli lake. Image by Seshadri K.S.

What expanding cities are doing to frogs and toads

Aisiri Amin 16 Dec 2025
Rhinophis siruvaniensis. Image by by Umesh P.K.

Scientists describe a new species of burrowing shieldtail snake

Vandana K. 9 Dec 2025
The single forest road that connects Cholanaikkans with the outside world. Image by Unnnikrishnan Avala.

Asia’s last cave dwellers vanishing in the shadows of change

K.A. Shaji 25 Nov 2025
The Nilgiris hills in the southern Western Ghats. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

A stairway from the ocean to the skies [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 29 Oct 2025
To find out how well the toads themselves recognise mating colour signals, researchers recorded the skin colours of toads gathered at a rock pool and fed the data into a computer model that simulated toad vision, revealing they could easily detect the contrast between yellow males and the brown females. Image by Susanne Stückler and Doris Preininger.

Male toads get a monsoon makeover to stand out from the crowd

Sandhya Sekar 23 Oct 2025
An aerial view of the Sundarbans, showing the species-wise zonation. Image by Touhid Biplob via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What is ecological succession? [Explainer]

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Sep 2025
Yellow-browed bulbul specimens collected from the Nilgiri hills in the 1800s at the Natural History Museum at Tring, England. Image by Vijay Ramesh.

Old maps and dead birds reveal the story of grassland and bird decline in the Nilgiris

Kartik Chandramouli 19 Aug 2025
A Hanuman langur leaps over tree tops in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. Image by Nikhil More via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mewa Singh on chasing monkeys for over half a century [Interview]

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2025