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India biodiversity

  • While India’s wildlife is declining, its environment ministry remains in denial

    While India’s wildlife is declining, its environment ministry remains in denial

    Nikhil Eapen
    · Nov 11, 2020 · 01:30 pm
  • How preparations for Madhya Pradesh’s tourism festival drove down vulture population in this town

    How preparations for Madhya Pradesh’s tourism festival drove down vulture population in this town

    Manish Chandra Mishra
    · Mar 11, 2020 · 11:30 pm
  • India is home to over 8,000 species of medicinal plants – and they’re increasingly under threat

    India is home to over 8,000 species of medicinal plants – and they’re increasingly under threat

    Aathira Perinchery
    · Feb 25, 2020 · 01:30 pm
  • How Sri Lanka got its lizards (and what it says about the island’s history)

    How Sri Lanka got its lizards (and what it says about the island’s history)

    Bhanu Sridharan
    · Nov 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • Photos of the new species of dragon lizards discovered in the Western Ghats

    Photos of the new species of dragon lizards discovered in the Western Ghats

    Sandhya Sekar
    · Oct 29, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • Can clean energy hurt the environment? A proposed Indian offshore wind power project poses a paradox

    Can clean energy hurt the environment? A proposed Indian offshore wind power project poses a paradox

    Mayank Aggarwal
    · May 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm
  • An ancient rainforest in Kerala teaches us what we’re losing out on in our lonely cities of concrete

    An ancient rainforest in Kerala teaches us what we’re losing out on in our lonely cities of concrete

    Suprabha Seshan
    · Feb 04, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Elusive snow leopard photographed in Sikkim

    Elusive snow leopard photographed in Sikkim

    The Third Pole
    · Apr 20, 2016 · 03:30 pm
  • India has to choose between saving its tigers or becoming one of the largest diamond producers

    India has to choose between saving its tigers or becoming one of the largest diamond producers

    Madhura Karnik and Manu Balachandran, qz.com
    · Apr 02, 2016 · 06:30 pm