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A man fishes from the flood waters at Ghatal, west of Kolkata in 2015. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Environmental issues underrepresented in West Bengal polls

Nabarun Guha 27 Apr 2026
A herd of elephants at a tea estate in Golaghat district, Assam. Representative image by Donvikro via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Study finds counterintuitive rise in elephant deaths after organised monitoring

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Mar 2026
Mahouts ready a captive elephant for safaris in Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Elephant’s death spotlights conditions in safari tourism

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2026
A train station in Assam. Experts say that elephant–train collisions are not new to people in the Kampur subdivision in Nagaon. In 2016, four elephants were mowed down by a train, close to the spot of the recent accident. Representative image by Himanshum14 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Jumbo deaths on tracks expose gaps in wildlife safety

Nabarun Guha 31 Dec 2025

Looking at human-wildlife conflict through a data-first lens

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Oct 2025
Elephants raid paddy fields at night in Jhargham district as farmers watch. Image by Human & Environment Alliance League.

Fragmented forests and human disturbances create stress in Asian elephants

Shweta Yogi 1 Oct 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
Nepali village wild elephants conflict

A border village learns to live with migratory elephants

Deepak Adhikari 13 Feb 2025

Even amid conflict, nuanced narratives of reverence and empathy for the elephant prevail

Nabarun Guha 9 Jan 2025