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Slopes in Vishalgad in the northern Western Ghats. Image by Ankur P via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). 

Tree cover may depend on which way the slope faces

Nikhil Sreekandan 8 Apr 2025

Forest dwellers struggle amid depleting forest resources

Satish Malviya 13 Feb 2024
Farmer Mhobatsinh Sindhal stands beside the C. wightii (Guggul) fence in his farm.

From abundance to endangerment to revival, Kachchh’s guggal comes a full circle

Azera Parveen Rahman 26 Sep 2023
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
Image shows woody stem of Rubus ellipticus with fruiting

Himalayan medicinal plants under threat due to climate change

T. V. Padma 19 Apr 2022

The neelakurinji bloom is wilting with time

Arathi Menon 27 Sep 2021

[Video] The barefoot ecologist who brought forests to life

Arathi Menon and Abhishek N. Chinnappa 24 Feb 2020

What are invasive plants?

Aathira Perinchery 27 Jun 2019

[Commentary] CBD obstructs biological research that needs international collaboration

K. Divakaran Prathapan, Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan 17 Jul 2018

Once in a blue bloom: Kerala’s famed Neelakurinji set for rare mass bloom

Ajith Lawrence, Haritha John 12 Jul 2018

International Day for Biological Diversity: A thumbnail-sized fern has Indian scientists divided over its identity

Manupriya 22 May 2018

Researchers innovate to make money out of water hyacinth

Sapna Gopal 23 Jan 2018

Three rattan species in the Western Ghats are endangered

Richa Malhotra 28 Dec 2017

Melghat villagers make money out of lantana weed

Moushumi Basu 25 Dec 2017

Extremely rare cobra lily rediscovered within the Nilgiri mountains

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Nov 2017