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Cicadas begin calling when triggered by the first sunlight just before dawn. They even coordinate with each other just like particles in a magnet. Image by Rakesh Khanna.

Cicadas sing in sync as the sun rises

Debdutta Paul 27 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
A tiger in the Western Ghats. A Wildlife Institute of India study recorded five large to medium-sized carnivores, including tigers, along the track corridor. Image by Kalyan Varma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Rail expansion plans spark clash between coal and tiger conservation

Pamela D'Mello 17 Oct 2025
Cattle graze on the Hesaraghatta Grassland Conservation Reserve. Grasslands endure and regenerate—no matter how much they’re grazed or nibbled by animals. Image by Ishwarappa

A grassland gets a lifeline, offers a lesson

Max Martin 15 Oct 2025

Rainfall, acreage influence community adoption of elephant mitigation measures, says study

Simrin Sirur 13 Oct 2025

No grass for gaur in India’s tiger reserve

Arathi Menon 8 Oct 2025

Habitat conservation stabilises macaque population: Study

Arathi Menon 1 Oct 2025
Blackbucks in Jayamangali Blackbuck Conservation Reserve area in Karnataka’s Tumkur district. Image by Seshadri K.S.

Blackbucks thrive outside a fragmented protected reserve

Aisiri Amin 3 Sep 2025
A gig worker in Noida. Many gig workers in the National Capital Region were sceptical about the impact of the NDMA advisory. Image by Kundan Pandey.

Gig work heats up, disaster body steps in with advisory

Kundan Pandey 5 Aug 2025
Brahmagiri serves as a crucial corridor for elephants and tigers, raising concerns about human-wildlife conflict that could intensify if the tribal colony is established.  The proposed land witnesses high wildlife activity and cattle lifting by tigers is frequently reported from nearby villages. Image by Bose Madappa.

Tribal resettlement near the forest a wild idea, say environmentalists

Arathi Menon 30 Jul 2025
The recent deaths of a female tiger and her four cubs in the Malai Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary comes as a blow to tiger conservation. It reveals lapses in forest protection, unchecked livestock grazing, and brewing human-animal conflict in the landscape. Representative image of tiger cubs by Gurdeep Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tiger deaths reveal conservation challenges

Bharti Dharapuram 15 Jul 2025

A new biopark to expand urban green cover

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
A kestrel perched on a pole in Bengaluru. These birds are more common in the outskirts of the city. Image by Jagdish Krishnaswamy.

How urban birds respond to heat and green cover

Anusha Krishnan 9 Jul 2025
My Otter Diary shows the daily life of Maya and her family, who survive on the declining fish in the river. Image by Sugandhi Gadadhar and Raghunath Belur.

Filming the elusive and vulnerable smooth-coated otters

Aisiri Amin 8 Jul 2025
A tigress and cubs. Representative image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tigress and four cubs found dead in Karnataka

Divya Kilikar 27 Jun 2025

Dinesh Holla on trekking the Western Ghats for ecological awareness [Interview]

Shradha Triveni 12 Jun 2025
A cleanliness drive held in Udupi, Karnataka. Image courtesy of Baeru.

World Environment Day: a rising wave against ocean waste

Saumitra Shinde 5 Jun 2025
Experts say that the government must adopt policies to encourage more sustainable practices. Farmers can help restore the water table through ecological farming practices. Policies could also establish clear extraction limits. Image by Lakshmikantha N.R.

Scientists raise alarm as rural water supply goes from depths to debt

Arathi Menon 27 May 2025
A view of Bengaluru city from an apartment complex in Banashankari. Image by Kushagra140 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Peri-urban building rush fuels urban heat islands

Max Martin 19 May 2025
Elephants and people constantly overlap , leading to human-elephant conflict in the districts of Hassan, Kodagu, and Chikkamagaluru. Traditional mitigation methods like direct translocation or permanent captivity often fail, leading to the innovation of the soft release centre. Image by Vinod Krishnan.

Experts conflicted over the hard decision to soft release problem jumbos

Arathi Menon 13 May 2025