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Specimen found at Mishmi Hills. Photo by Minom Pertin.

Butterfly records at the forefront of Arunachal’s biodiversity sightings

Ranju Dodum 14 Dec 2021

[Photos] A Kashmir spring is protected by a local festival

Waseem Dar 5 Nov 2021
Remnant forests in large tea monocultures in Darjeeling, Eastern Himalayas. Photo by Annesha Chowdhury.

Tea plantations support biodiversity when managed agroecologically

Roopak Goswami 1 Nov 2021
Ox-eye daisy in the Kashmir Himalayas in India. Photo by Anzar A. Khuroo

Snug in Kashmir’s meadows, ox-eye daisy worries scientists

Sahana Ghosh 27 Sep 2021
Indian grassroots conservationist Nuklu Phom is one of the six Whitley Award winners, 2021. Photo from Nuklu Phom.

Indian “Green Oscar” winner Nuklu Phom envisions a Biodiversity Peace Corridor

Sahana Ghosh 24 May 2021

Saving the Asiatic black bear from illegal wildlife trade needs nuanced conservation

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 23 Apr 2021
Deorali sacred forest associated with Deorali Chorten Monastery. Photo by Bijayalaxmi et.al.

Sikkim’s urban sacred groves mitigate double the carbon compared to a natural rural forest

Sahana Ghosh 16 Apr 2021

The woman who breaks stereotypes while rescuing wildlife in Kashmir

Athar Parvaiz 3 Mar 2021

Land use changes are driving Himalayan forest bird loss

T. V. Padma 1 Mar 2021
Melting glaciers of Nanda Devi mountains, Chamoli, India. Photo by Naresh Chandra/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists analysing Uttarakhand floods highlight need to improve monitoring of glaciers

Sahana Ghosh 12 Feb 2021

Monitoring rainfall changes in world’s wettest place

Sahana Ghosh 11 Feb 2021
Camera trap image of snow leopard in HP upper reaches. Camera trap images from surveys by NCF and HP forest department.

Scientific survey maps 73 snow leopards in Himachal Pradesh

Vivek Gupta 10 Feb 2021

Mapping conflict hotspots as leopards adapt to unlikely habitats outside protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 24 Jul 2020

Hope for healthy yak rides on Druk, the yak bull from Bhutan raised in Sikkim

Sahana Ghosh 1 Jul 2020

How the yak rearing system in north Sikkim is coping with climate change

Sahana Ghosh 28 Nov 2019

Unstoppable rivers: Bhutan’s quest for energy security and development in a changing climate

Emma Johnson 28 Oct 2019

Snowmelt is a major driver of runoff in the Chhota Shigri catchment

Neha Jain 8 Jul 2019

Artificial Intelligence spotlights the importance of forest communities in afforestation

Sahana Ghosh 15 Feb 2019
Darjeeling garbage cleaning HMI

Trainee mountaineers take on trash rolled down Darjeeling hills

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jan 2019

Assam most vulnerable to climate change in Indian Himalayan region: study

Mayank Aggarwal 21 Dec 2018