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Western Ghats wayanad landslides

Caught between exploitation and extremes, Western Ghats’ future hinges on local action

Max Martin 29 Jan 2025
Cilantica agasthyaensis is one of the new species included in a new genus of trantulas from the Western Ghats. Image courtesy of Zeeshan Mirza.

New tarantulas described from the Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jan 2025

Science welcomed multiple new species in 2024

Arathi Menon 30 Dec 2024
A landscape view of Champawat town, Uttarakhand. Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change in the Himalayas. Image by WhiteRaven335 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Urban expansion drives forest loss in India’s biodiversity hotspots

T. V. Padma 23 Sep 2024
Mukerjee, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Eastern Ghats debuts in new landslide susceptibility map

Divya Kilikar 26 Jun 2024

[Video] Complexities of siting a windfarm in the Western Ghats

Ayesha Khan 4 Apr 2024

Indrella ampulla’s genetic tapestry unveils colour morphs isolated across the Palghat Gap

Arathi Menon 6 Feb 2024

Genetic insights of the Kempholey night frog offer better conservation strategies

Neha Jain 30 Nov 2023
A tiger photo-captured by a camera trap in Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo from Vivekanand Environment Awareness Brigade, Keri, Sattari

Environmentalists revive contentious call to declare a tiger reserve in Goa

Praveena Sharma 5 Jul 2023
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Making sense of rainfall changes in Karnataka’s coffee estates through old records

Arathi Menon 1 Dec 2022

Longwood Shola forest is a water source for villages in the Nilgiris, maintains biodiversity

Gretta 14 Oct 2022

[Commentary] What students and citizens can do about forest fires in Kodaikanal

Nikil Sankar Narayanan 28 Jun 2022
Elephant herd crossing roads at Bandipur. Photo by Lokeshlakshmipathy/Wikimedia Commons.

Corridors with high human activities may not ease elephant connectivity: study

Rupsy Khurana 9 May 2022

Mahatma hill’s avian diversity shows the importance of conserving the ‘tekdis’ of Pune

Vinaya Kurtkoti 31 Mar 2022

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

Anurag Mishra 7 Feb 2022
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
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

When conservation efforts collide with tribal rights in Maharashtra

Prachi Pinglay-Plumber 6 Oct 2021
A Waghoba worshipper at Film City in Goregaon, Mumbai. Photo by Ramya Nair/Project Waghoba.

Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space

Aathira Perinchery 4 Oct 2021