Connected Environments News

In a highly connected world, any action on the environment in any part of the world is almost never in isolation. In the Connected Environments series, we go beyond borders and explore the impact of India's consumption needs and demands for natural resources on the environment in other countries.

Barnacles on a plastic bottle found on the beach. Photo by Gunasekaran Kannan

Marine debris transporting invasive species along the southeastern coast

Max Martin 11 Oct 2023

A sub-adult Bengal tiger on the river bank in Sundarban Tiger Reserve in India.

Bangladesh’s tiger conservation efforts win with rise in population in the Sundarbans

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 25 Oct 2023

Barnacles on a plastic bottle found on the beach. Photo by Gunasekaran Kannan

Marine debris transporting invasive species along the southeastern coast

Max Martin 11 Oct 2023

Women seaweed farmers seek other jobs while India plans industry expansion

Almaas Masood 10 Oct 2023

Deer Park on the way to Tirumala. Photo by Hemanth/Wikimedia Commons.

More climate change variables needed in 16th Finance Commission’s tax distribution formula, say experts

Kundan Pandey 6 Oct 2023

Bioinvasions are a global threat to ecosystems, says IPBES report

Arathi Menon 21 Sep 2023

Image of a man with a gun captured by a camera trap.

Privacy concerns rise as wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2023

Gujarat’s indigenous Patanwadi wool and sheep, on a steady fall

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Aug 2023

A tiger peeking over grass.

Tigers struggle to move within Nepal even as they cross borders: study

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Jul 2023

Environmentalists raise concerns as work on J&K’s Tawi riverfront continues

Irshad Hussain, Mubashir Naik 7 Jul 2023

Plastic-rock hybrids found on the Andaman Islands

Vinaya Kurtkoti 27 Jun 2023

Facing space and resource crunch, North East states to build new shelters for seized wildlife

Nikhil Ghanekar 20 Jun 2023

With a Russell’s viper and snakebite resurgence, Bangladesh looks to developing antivenom

Abu Siddique 12 Jun 2023

Call to save rare snake habitat follows red coral kukri sightings in Bangladesh

Rafiqul Islam 31 May 2023

Small cats in big trouble: Why we need to save these elusive endangered species

Sean Mowbray 25 May 2023

The Pallas’s cat.

Manul, the ‘grumpiest cat,’ confirmed on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Mar 2023

Countries resolve to protect cetaceans from marine plastic pollution

Sharada Balasubramanian 30 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Finding molluscs with Devapriya Chattopadhyay

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 23 Dec 2022

Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022

A Miniopterus phillipsi.

A newly described cave bat in Sri Lanka indicates presence of more species

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Nov 2022

A Royal Bengal tiger

[Interview] “South Asia needs its own regional plan to sustain Bengal tiger population”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 12 Oct 2022

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