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Fishing in the Bay of Bengal. Photo by Nayeem Siddiquee/Wikimedia Commons.

Broaden understanding of marine heatwaves in the Indian Ocean: Experts

Sahana Ghosh 23 Feb 2022
Many families depend on prawn seed collection along the banks, a practice that also leads to destruction of juvenile fishes of other species. Photo Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Scientists raise caution as mangroves erode faster along the Bengal coastline

T. V. Padma 22 Feb 2022
Solar PVs at the Rosekandy tea estate. Photo by Roofsol Energy.

Assam tea gardens experiment with solar for reliable power supply and cutting costs, emissions

Roopak Goswami 17 Feb 2022

Mahananda river survey records 190 dolphins, warns of fishing threats to Red List species

Seema Sharma 17 Feb 2022
A baby elephant in Lataguri Forest, West Bengal

[Book Review] An ecologist’s ode to his field assistant, elephants and Buxa

Renuka Kulkarni 16 Feb 2022

[Commentary] Tracing the leopard gecko’s story from pet trade to the lab and beyond

Anurag Mishra 7 Feb 2022
The pollinating fig wasp in the Ficus elastica's fruiting bodies. Photo by Nikhil Moore.

Interwoven in the living root bridges are stories of biodiversity and human interactions

Sahana Ghosh 2 Feb 2022
Birdwatchers

[Book Review] An introduction to birding can build a lifelong interest in the natural world

Arti Das 27 Jan 2022
The Himalayan monal is illegally trafficked from the Himalayas. Photo by Koshy Koshy/Wikimedia Commons.

Using citizen science to track illegal wildlife trade in the Himalayas

T. V. Padma 21 Jan 2022
Sea snakes caught as bycatch. Photo by Chetan Rao.

Sea snakes along Konkan coast imperilled by bycatch, lack of enforcement of fishery regulations

Rupsy Khurana 14 Jan 2022

Return of the tiger at West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2022

Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022
Rose Eduoard or the panneer rose.

[Commentary] Tracing the history, portrait and uses of the panneer rose

Shobha Menon 5 Jan 2022
Pokkudan's children revived the defunct Kallen Pokkudan Mangrove Trust in recent months, formed by their father in 2013 to impart mangrove conservation literacy to society. Photo by Bhavapriya JU.

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 31 Dec 2021

Crocodiles, (largest) coal mine and (ignored) carbon sink: Multimedia stories we told in 2021

Kartik Chandramouli 27 Dec 2021
Even open canopied forests can pack a biological diversity that sustain communities. Photo by S. Gopikrishna Warrier/Mongabay.

[Video Explainer] What is the significance of the Biological Diversity Amendment Bill and why did it face opposition?

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 24 Dec 2021

In Arunachal’s Sessa Orchid Sanctuary communities collaborate with forest officials to conserve orchids

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy Saharia 22 Dec 2021
Sumitra shows the value-added beeswax-products. Photo by Arathi Menon.

Aadhimalai, winner of UN Equator Prize from Nilgiris, offers a lesson in indigenous economics

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2021

Forests of faith face encroachments and invasive species in Punjab

Jaskaran Singh, Sahana Ghosh 17 Dec 2021
Long-term plot census, 2020 Sigur Plateau Tamil Nadu. Photo by Karthik Teegalapalli.

Climate mitigation should not come at cost of biodiversity conservation, warns tropical savannah ecologist

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2021