Science
Down To Earth
THE NIGHT WATCHER
Reverse mythical beliefs to save the nocturnal hunter of Western Ghats
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December 16, 2025
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THE OVERLOOKED WILD
Meet the species that demand conservation attention
4 min |
December 16, 2025
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THE MOUNTAIN MONARCH
Western Ghats' grassland guardian has emerged from the shadows, but may not stay for long
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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WHERE MYTH MEETS MUSCLE
In the mist-shrouded high hills of Arunachal Pradesh, an elusive mountain giant fights for survival
3 min |
December 16, 2025
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TURNING TURTLE
Once a jewel of the Ganga, the large riverine turtle clings to life in a shrinking sanctuary
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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THE LAST DANCE
Fewer than 1,000 Bengal floricans survive in Asia's shrinking floodplains
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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DROWNING IN ITS HOME
The dancing deer stares at near-extinction as its marshy habitat thins and fragments
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE
Hunting and habitat degradation remain the biggest threats of this ground-dwelling bird
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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THE ODD FELINE
The fishing cat's decline is not an isolated conservation woe. It is a symptom
3 min |
December 16, 2025
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MORE THAN A DAZZLE
This living tapestry is an indicator species for some of Asia's most biodiverse and least-explored mountain ecosystems
3 min |
December 16, 2025
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ASSAM'S PRIDE
A rare primate is losing its only home
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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A LITTLE PIG GOES A LONG WAY
India's pygmy hog is vanishing from its grasslands, just as it is needed the most
2 min |
December 16, 2025
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PERFECT STRANGER
It is surprising how little is understood about the world's largest venomous snake
3 min |
December 16, 2025
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COP OF TALK
The UN's 30th climate summit, COP30 in Belém, was billed as the COP of truth and implementation.It was an opportunity for the world to move beyond diagnosis to delivery. Instead it revealed a system struggling to prove its relevance.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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1,500 days, and an alarm for new climate
SEASONS ARE the compass that guide humans to survive and thrive as a society. What happens if seasons lose their distinct character and predictable rhythm? This is no longer a theoretical question. The Earth is entering a new climate regime, its atmosphere now saturated with greenhouse gases at levels without precedent in human history. And the earliest sign of this shift is the near-dissolution of familiar seasons; all merging and dissipating like the pupa inside the chrysalis, but, not to give birth to that mesmerising butterfly. This metamorphosis is manifest in the blizzard of weather events, extreme in severity and unseasonal by nature and geography.
2 min |
December 01, 2025
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Rights in transit
A recent dispute over transport and trade of kendu leaves in Odisha highlights differing interpretations of forest rights laws in the state
6 min |
December 01, 2025
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Roots of peace
Kerala's forest department plants fruit and fodder trees to ease human-wildlife tensions
2 min |
December 01, 2025
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Flattened frontiers
Efforts to reclaim degraded land from Chambal ravines expose both people and biodiversity to ecological risks from erosion and flooding
5 min |
December 01, 2025
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INDIA'S DRY RUN
India is poised to be a global hub of data centres—back-end facilities that house servers and hardware needed to run online activities.
10+ min |
December 01, 2025
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Bangla generic drugs to the rescue
A buyer's club for generic cystic fibrosis drugs sourced from Bangladesh highlights the country's laudable pharma development
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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Direct approach
A new direct cash transfer scheme as well as decades of women-centric programmes yield an electoral windfall for the ruling alliance in Bihar
5 min |
December 01, 2025
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HIDDEN RESOURCE
Punjab's 1.4 million abandoned borewells offer a chance to mitigate flood damage and replenish depleting groundwater
4 min |
December 01, 2025
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Corporate bias
INDIA'S DRAFT Seeds Bill, 2025, introduced by the Centre in mid-November, proposes a few key changes.
1 min |
December 01, 2025
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Influencing behaviour
OVER THE past 50 years, ultra-processed food (UPF) corporations have shaped global food and health through either industry-sponsored research, embedding themselves as \"stakeholders\" in policy making, or through various other initiatives, says a threepart Lancet series published on November 19.
1 min |
December 01, 2025
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India headed for extreme climate events
INDIA IS on course for cataclysmic climate events, says a new study in PLOS Climate.
1 min |
December 01, 2025
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SOME OVERLOOKED ASPECTS
Increasing night-time temperatures and rapid intensification of cyclones already happening
1 min |
November 16, 2025
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Excessive groundwater extraction can cause subsidence
Subsidence is a global phenomenon seen not just in coastal regions, but also in inland areas. Natural subsidence progresses slowly, but anthropogenic activities, like excessive groundwater extraction, can significantly accelerate the rate, says LEONARD OHENHEN, assistant professor, department of earth system science, University of California, Irvine, US. In an interview with SUSHMITA SENGUPTA, Ohenhen says that climate change intensifies the problem through multiple pathways.
3 min |
November 16, 2025
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2025 IS UNPRECEDENTED
Never heard about so many such exceptional rainfall events as have occurred this year
1 min |
November 16, 2025
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GOVERNING THE CLOUDS
In the absence of evidence, replicability, funding and transparency, cloud seeding languishes as an imperfect science
6 min |
November 16, 2025
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Heavier footprints
Investments and capital owned by the world's wealthiest few are driving the climate crisis, according to a first-of-its-kind report
3 min |