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

Shradha Triveni 12 Jun 2025
Seeds of native trees being collected in a coffee agroforest. Image by Vijay Kumar.

Coffee agrofarms can play a key role in restoring degraded forest, study says

Simrin Sirur 17 Apr 2025
Slopes in Vishalgad in the northern Western Ghats. Image by Ankur P via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). 

Tree cover may depend on which way the slope faces

Nikhil Sreekandan 8 Apr 2025
Rhododendron trees in full bloom near Darjeeling, West Bengal. Image by Abhijit Kar Gupta via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Rhododendron survival depends on its conservation [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 13 Mar 2025
Western Ghats wayanad landslides

Caught between exploitation and extremes, Western Ghats’ future hinges on local action

Max Martin 29 Jan 2025
Cilantica agasthyaensis is one of the new species included in a new genus of trantulas from the Western Ghats. Image courtesy of Zeeshan Mirza.

New tarantulas described from the Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

Relocating villages in core tiger areas based on science

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Jan 2025

Lion-tailed macaques navigate twin hurdles

Arathi Menon 11 Dec 2024

New king cobra study makes hisss…tory

Arathi Menon 20 Nov 2024

When people’s participation propels science

Arathi Menon 10 Oct 2024
A landscape view of Champawat town, Uttarakhand. Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change in the Himalayas. Image by WhiteRaven335 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Urban expansion drives forest loss in India’s biodiversity hotspots

T. V. Padma 23 Sep 2024

[Commentary] Kerala is a hotspot within a hotspot

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 19 Sep 2024

[Explainer] How does habitat fragmentation impact India’s biodiversity hotspots?

Divya Kilikar 15 Jul 2024
sunnyjosef, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

New study puts spotlight on neglected mammal, bird pollinators 

T. V. Padma 8 Jul 2024

Civet latrines in the shade puzzle researchers

Arathi Menon 25 Jun 2024

The curious case of a frog and a fungus

Arathi Menon 1 May 2024

Species no bar: Langurs forge unusual alliances in the wild

Arathi Menon 18 Apr 2024

Kyasanur Forest Disease: A ticking health bomb in the Western Ghats

Arathi Menon 12 Apr 2024

With a new discovery, lizard studies get an edge

Arathi Menon 5 Apr 2024

[Video] Complexities of siting a windfarm in the Western Ghats

Ayesha Khan 4 Apr 2024