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A push for the bush frog

Arathi Menon 2 Sep 2025
A stray dog in Kolkata. In 2024 and 2025, the Centre issued advisories urging Urban Local Bodies to set up Animal Birth Control units and carry out large-scale sterilisation programmes. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0).

Street dogs in the spotlight as rabies eradication deadline comes closer

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2025

Scientists turn to speed breeding to develop resilient, high yield crops

Hirra Azmat 2 Sep 2025
Kuribeel in Manas National Park. Image courtesy of the Office of the Field Director, Manas Tiger Reserve. 

Two decades after civil unrest, wildlife makes a steady recovery

Shailesh Shrivastava 1 Sep 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
A physically disabled man rests as commuters cross a waterlogged street in 2013 in Guwahati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Is India’s disaster preparedness inclusive enough?

Aisiri Amin 29 Aug 2025
A woman washes clothes near a well. Most village wells in Melghat contain murky water, which women use to wash clothes and utensils, leading to diseases and infections. Image by Abhijeet Tangde.

Despite dams and water schemes, tribal villages live with drought

Kiran Gite, Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Aug 2025
Great Indian Bustards feed on termites in the soil. Image by Late Radheshyam Bishnoi.

The state of the great Indian bustard leaves no room for bad eggs [Commentary]

Sumit Dookia and Mamta Rawat 28 Aug 2025
A man rows past a bus partly submerged in flood water in Rishikesh in June 2013. Extreme rain during the monsoon led to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides during this time in the Western Himalayas. (AP Photo)

What are cloudbursts? Why do they occur and how can cloudburst risks be reduced? [Explainer]

Max Martin 27 Aug 2025

India set to participate in the World Cup for trash collection

Meena Menon 26 Aug 2025
A clouded leopard in Cotswold Wildlife Park in the U.K. Representative image by Richard via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Viral clouded leopard video is not from Northeast India, experts confirm

Shailesh Shrivastava 26 Aug 2025
Blyth's tragopan. Image by Satem Longchar.

Evolving hunting practices pose an increasing threat to wildlife

Barasha Das 25 Aug 2025
A man applies reflective paint to the roof of a house to cool the indoors in Ahmedabad. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A whole-system approach to cooling in a warming world [Commentary]

Prima Madan and Akash Goenka 25 Aug 2025
Kumari Sahu from Patharra village in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district shares concerns about the ethanol plant. Image by Ayushi Sharma/Mongabay India.

Ethanol push sparks concerns about food security, environment and health

Ayushi Sharma 22 Aug 2025

Children face a disproportionate burden of environmental risks

Shweta Thakur Nanda 21 Aug 2025
Himalayan pine. Representative image by Wendy Cutler via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Fallen pine needles could help India cut carbon emissions

Vandana K. 21 Aug 2025
Ground truthing exercises for forest degradation mapping, integrating field data with satellite-based analysis. Image courtesy of TERI

Global REDD+ standards fail local forests [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh and Jitendra Vir Sharma 20 Aug 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 man with a baby in his arms sat on the sculpture of Mother Earth, surrounded by broken plastic toys, bottles, and chairs scattered around. Every day, some more trash was added. Even as the man is seen thinking, Mother Earth, his own body, and the DNA helix above him, were all covered in plastic. Even as plastic has penetrated the foetus-symbolised by the DNA helix, the sea and the mountains, world leaders procrastinate to agree on a solution.

Global talks on plastic pollution end without a treaty

Ravleen Kaur 19 Aug 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2025