Study identifies rare case of moth and lichen association
Mongabay Indiaby Divya Kilikar5h ago
A new paper documents the first known record of a moth using the umbilicate lichen, Lasallia pertusa, as a camouflage background.
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top 49%A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar8h ago
- Heatwaves, floods, erratic rainfall and droughts are altering the conditions that drive infectious diseases.
India’s deep-sea fishing dreams are struggling to stay afloat
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon7h ago
- India’s deep-sea fishing scheme has few takers as high costs, unsuitable boat designs and delayed subsidies deter participation.
Humid heat challenges India’s conventional heatwave thresholds
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon1d ago
- Assam rarely crosses IMD’s heatwave thresholds, despite a measurable warming trend and more frequent spells of anomalous heat.
The giants with one horn
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon1d ago
Conservation efforts have re-established the greater one-horned rhinoceros in Assam’s Manas National Park.
India needs a just adaptation agenda [Commentary]
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey2d ago
- India’s first National Adaptation Plan offers an opportunity to make justice central to how the country addresses climate risks and allocates public resources.
Forgotten vegetables could help make our diets more resilient
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar2d ago
- Vegetable biodiversity is important for nutritional security and climate resilience, but it is rapidly declining due to diet homogenisation and land-use change.
Protests over dam heat up as crackdown on activists continues
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey3d ago
- Protests against the 11,000 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project in Arunachal Pradesh turned violent on September 30, with an MLA’s house attacked and vehicles allegedly set on fire.
Climate change may increase the ibisbill’s habitat range, but other pressures loom
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar3d ago
- A new study finds that mean annual temperature is the most important climatic factor influencing the distribution of the elusive ibisbill within the Kashmir and Ladakh Himalayas.
Unclear records leave villages in limbo over irrigation project displacement
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey6d ago
- Polavaram Irrigation Project on Godavari river leaves villages in the neighbouring state Chhattisgarh in fear about displacement, because of uncertainty about the project’s submergence area.
Legal system fails to keep pace with India’s growing exotic pet industry
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon7d ago
- India has strengthened its legal framework to regulate the exotic pet trade, but implementation remains fragmented.
Maharashtra formally recognises women farmers regardless of land ownership [Commentary]
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon7d ago
- Women have increasingly taken up the role of managing and maintaining the agricultural lands, often with more responsibility but without a corresponding rise in control, assets or decision-making...
New toad species described in northeast mountain tops
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon8d ago
A May 2026 study describes a new species of toad (Duttaphyrnus phawngpui sp. nov.) from Phawngpui National Park, located in southeastern Mizoram along the border with Myanmar.
The visiting grassland gardeners
Mongabay Indiaby Priyanka Shankar8d ago
Flying thousands of kilometres circumventing the mighty Himalayas, harriers arrive in India’s grasslands around July every year, when winter sets in across their breeding grounds in Central Asia...
India’s coking coal push needs a methane plan [Commentary]
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey9d ago
- India’s plan to ramp up coking coal mining could increase methane emissions faster as mines go deeper into gassier seams.
Maharashtra declares drought as El Niño deepens
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon10d ago
The Maharashtra government has declared drought in 265 of the state’s 358 talukas, along with a slew of relief measures.
Isolated island tribes should choose their own destinies, says Manish Chandi [Interview]
Mongabay Indiaby Mongabay Editor10d ago
- Manish Chandi, a former research scholar who has spent over two decades working on tribal communities speaks to Mongabay about the latest threats and activities affecting isolated and contacted...
NGOs call for permanent moratorium on animal imports to Vantara
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey13d ago
- A coalition of conservation organisations have urged Vantara to make its temporary moratorium on wild animal imports permanent, warning that a time-limited pause could actually spur stockpiling...
Abandoning exotic pets is raising ecological concerns
Mongabay Indiaby Aditi Tandon13d ago
- India’s exotic pet trade is seeing more non-native species abandoned or escape, raising animal welfare and ecological concerns.
El Niño, the monsoon, and the confusion of Kerala’s fishers [Commentary]
Mongabay Indiaby Kundan Pandey13d ago
- When El Niño is read as warming the ocean, fishers in Kerala, felt cooler seas at the coast than they remembered in earlier Julys.