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There is an urgent need to develop a more resilient and capable observing system to factor in the accelerating pace of climatic and oceanic change. Photo by Blueocean/Wikimedia Commons.

Improved monitoring proposed in the Indian Ocean as climatic and oceanic changes increase

Sahana Ghosh 7 May 2021
White-bellied heron spotted in Arunachal Pradesh. Photo by Dekbin Yonggam.

Elusive white-bellied heron spotted in the high Himalayas

Ranju Dodum 6 May 2021
Beetle grubs ready to be roasted. Photo by Ajano Tsanglao.

[Explainer] Eating insects could be the future of food

Femi E. Benny 3 May 2021
A male gharial basks at a nesting site cleared of vegetation. Photo by Gaurav Vashistha

Gharial nesting threatened by woody vegetation on riverbanks

Neha Jain 3 May 2021

Not two, only one species of hoolock gibbon in India: study

Roopak Goswami 30 Apr 2021

Eyes in the sky can track effectiveness of nature-based solutions

Sahana Ghosh 29 Apr 2021
Mangrove plantation at Kampong Jawa Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Photo by Irwandi Wancaleu/Wikimedia Commons.

Mapping future hotspots of carbon dioxide emissions from mangrove loss

Sahana Ghosh 28 Apr 2021

Urban support for government action on environment is high, finds pre-COP26 survey

Sahana Ghosh 21 Apr 2021
Women in a rice field in India (Tamil Nadu). Achievements of global goals on health, water, sanitation and matters of gender equality and their anticipated impacts on forests remain poorly researched. Photo by Deepak Kumar/Unsplash.

Study finds some UN SDGs could damage forests, some others may be beneficial

Sahana Ghosh 31 Mar 2021
A snow leopard captured by a camera trap in the Western Himalaya. Photo by Rishi Kumar Sharma/NCF/HPFD

[Commentary] Estimating population of world’s snow leopards

Rishi K. Sharma 11 Mar 2021

Beasts that once roamed the Indian subcontinent could hold clues to evolution and extinction

Sahana Ghosh 24 Feb 2021

Perils of the Phayre’s leaf monkey

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 8 Feb 2021

Research and resources are two pillars of India’s draft Arctic policy

Sahana Ghosh and Mayank Aggarwal 22 Jan 2021
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
Band-e Amir National Park is Afghanistan's first national park, located in the Bamyan Province. It is a series of six deep blue lakes separated by natural dams made of travertine, a mineral deposit.Photo: Alex Treadway/ ICIMOD Photo: Alex Treadway/ICIMOD.

[Commentary] The changing priority of ecosystem services research in the Hindu Kush Himalayas

Pratikshya Kandel and Nakul Chettri 12 Jan 2021

[Commentary] A post-lockdown pathway for forest-edge communities of central India

Ruth DeFries 8 May 2020

El Niño-Southern Oscillation can affect tuna fish in the Indian Ocean, says FAO report

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 24 Apr 2020

India’s power consumption falls by 19 percent during COVID-19 lockdown

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Apr 2020

[Interview] Lockdown throws up challenges for quarantine of plant samples for research

Sahana Ghosh 22 Apr 2020

[Commentary] Degrowth and COVID-19: Are we drawing a simplistic connection?

Soumyajit Bhar 21 Apr 2020