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Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.
Vaishali Shroff’s Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers is a deeply moving exploration of India’s rivers. Well-researched and readable stories take you through their ...
A new book by Ashok Swain, Professor and Head of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, draws links between climate change and conflict. Framing climate change as a ...
A global assessment of freshwater species has revealed that a quarter of species on the IUCN Red List are threatened with extinction.
Twenty years after the 2004 tsunami, coastal zones and mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still changing – while some sites were uplifted, others subsided.
Ongoing resistance to develop Great Nicobar Island got impetus with India’s leading political opposition party calling for the project’s clearances to be suspended. Legal proceedings challenging the ...
Community members monitoring ecology in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve integrate traditional knowledge with modern scientific methods to monitor climate impacts on their forests, rivers, and farms.
What can animal sound tell us about their behaviour? Listen to episode 2 of Wild Frequencies to learn how researchers use bioacoustics.
Towering landfills are testament to poor waste segregation practices in India that have persisted for decades. But India’s mounting, untreated waste is a problem whose consequences go beyond its ...
Rapid urbanisation, population growth, and unplanned development have led to land use and land cover changes in Ladakh, adding stress on groundwater resources in the region, says a new study.
State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.
The annual Maange Thapnee ritual in Ponda, Goa, symbolises the relationship between people and muggers, highlighting the cultural significance of coexistence.