Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley has been designated as India’s first Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, a move that puts the trans-Himalayan landscape ...

A new study from Assam reports that even dead and decapitated snakes can inject venom causing injuries if timely treatment is not provided. Envenomation by a dead snake can possibly be because of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Around the same time, in July, the Delhi government stopped fuel access to petrol vehicles older than 15 years and diesel vehicles older than 10 ...

Manish Chandra Mishra is an Assistant Editor at Mongabay India, currently based in Delhi. A multimedia journalist with over a decade of experience in mainstream media, he has established himself as a ...

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Wild edible plants enhance food security and climate resilience in Kashmir, finds study ...

In a perhaps first of its kind documentation, a fishing cat in the Sundarbans was photographed while preying on a monitor ...

LED light overuse is pushing brightness up 10% each year, faster than the global average, threatening wildlife, human life and the dark sky. While LED lights are efficient, their bluish light emission ...

Punjab is facing its worst floods since 1988. Around 1,900 villages are submerged with loss of lives and damage to farms, houses and infrastructure. Rescue operations are in progress and volunteers ...

The green credit programme incentivises corporations and other entities to participate in eco-restoration activities by awarding them credits that can be used to meet social and environmental ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. As entomologists, we spend countless hours in the field, meticulously observing and collecting data on insects. Yet, every so often, nature rewards ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Globally, while efforts are underway to achieve conservation aims, our collective progress remains limited in the face of biodiversity loss, land ...