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A biogas plant setup at Sahyadri School in Pune district. Image courtesy of Aditya Kamble/Vaayu Mitra.

LPG shortage leads to increased demand for clean-cooking solutions

Shuchita Jha 11 May 2026
A 2017 image of a tigress is Agarzai buffer area of TATR in Chandrapur. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecological debate over iron ore halts mining bid in tiger landscape

Arathi Menon 15 Apr 2026
A house burnt during ethnic clashes and rioting in Sugnu, Manipur in June 2023. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The unaccounted ecological costs of a conflict [Commentary]

Gojesh Konsam 30 Mar 2026
A farmer sprays pesticide at a farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

West Asia conflict raises concerns over urea supply in India

Kundan Pandey 27 Mar 2026
Elephants emerge from the forest in Wayanad. Image by M.K. Ramdas.

Intensifying efforts to tackle human animal conflict, a state-specific disaster

Saritha S. Balan 11 Sep 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
A Border Security Force outpost sign at the India-Pakistan border in Burj, Amritsar, Punjab. Image by Nabarun Guha.

Border village farmers navigate conflict and survival

Nabarun Guha 9 May 2025

Operation Bhediya reveals gaps in human-wildlife conflict mitigation

Arathi Menon, Nikhil Sahu 13 Sep 2024
Image shows two sloth bears with a tree branch in the foreground

An invasive plant is threatening sloth bear habitats and could increase conflict

Sneha Mahale 26 Feb 2024

Controlling the population of animals in conflict

Arathi Menon 9 Jan 2024
Every year hundreds of people and animals die in India due to human-wildlife conflict. Photo by Goldentakin/Flickr.

Mechanism to deal with human-animal conflict needs legislative backing, says parliamentary panel

Mayank Aggarwal 9 May 2022

[Commentary] The last tiger of Ajanta

Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi 10 Apr 2020