A study from Arunachal Pradesh found that flying and ground-dwelling insects shift to lower elevations in winter and insect-eating birds closely mirror these seasonal changes. Leaf-dwelling insects ...

Jharkhand has received below-normal monsoon rainfall this season so far, impacting the sowing and transplanting of kharif crops. Insufficient rainfall could lead to a decline in the production of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study tracked sugarcane production trends across five districts in Maharashtra and Karnataka between 1999 and 2021, finding significant yield ...

While India has expanded legal protections for sharks and rays, key breeding, nursery, and feeding habitats remain vulnerable. A new study has identified 11 Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Indian ...

Karnataka is the latest state to issue an advisory on planting Conocarpus trees, following prohibitory orders by the state governments of Gujarat, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. While ...

In a letter to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister, tribal chiefs of Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar have demanded withdrawal of a 2022 certificate that claimed forest rights had been recognised and ...

Sneha Mahale is a Mumbai-based journalist and editor who covers climate change, wildlife, health, technology, and culture. Her work has been published in Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, New Indian ...

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and ...

Manish Chandra Mishra is an Assistant Editor at Mongabay-India and an environmental journalist with over a decade of experience in print, digital, and multimedia journalism. He reports on climate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Banni grasslands of Kachchh represent one of the most unique, complex, and fragile ecological mosaics in the Indian subcontinent. For centuries ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1994, a U.S. company and the United States Department of Agriculture secured a European patent for a method of using neem extracts to control ...

Excess aquatic plants removed from Dal lake can be converted into liquid fertilisers, according to a new study. The test samples of fertilisers with essential plant nutrients, improved seed ...