Institutional expertise meets judicial confusion in the Aravalli hills definition case
Down To Earth | 30 December, 2025 Sachin Pernacca Sashidhar, Milind Bunyan, Kripa MK, Abi T Vanak The Supreme Court’s now-stayed definition of the Aravalli Range relies on a 100-metre height threshold that could exclude most of the landscape. Scientists and environmental groups warn the move ignores decades of ecological research on how the Aravallis […]
Fading Memories and Forgotten Tales: Jackals in Assamese Narratives
Priyanka Borah Current Conservation | August 11, 2025 I was walking through the streets under the scorching sun. Suddenly, my gaze fell on an aita, an elderly woman, sitting on the threshold of her home. As soon as our eyes met, she smiled and gestured for me to come closer. I introduced myself as a […]
Evaluating the vulnerability of threatened tree species to global drivers of change in the Western Ghats
Kamath Malavika, K S Arpitha, Krishnan Smitha, Gaisberger Hannes, Fremout Tobias, Bunyan Milind
Study highlights need for scientific management of blackbuck reserves
Deccan Herald
Who Decides How Much Water You Get? Behind the Numbers That Shape Urban India’s Water Supply
India Water Portal
Restoration Maintains High Soil Carbon Stocks in Asia’s Largest Tropical Grassland
Manan Bhan, Chetan Misher, Ankila Hiremath, Abi T. Vanak Ecological Applications | July 18, 2025 Land management changes threaten the ecological functionality of grassland ecosystems worldwide, including the ability of these ecosystems to store carbon in their soils. The Banni grasslands in India, Asia’s largest tropical grassland, are no different in this regard. Despite being […]
By Invitation: Why India must protect its open natural ecosystems
Abi Tamim Vanak and Anuja Malhotra Bangalore Mirror | July 16, 2025 Deserts are often misunderstood as failed ecosystems—barren, lifeless expanses in need of redemption. Popular imagination and policy alike view these arid landscapes as degraded zones to be greened through afforestation or irrigation. However, deserts are far from broken. They are ancient, biologically rich […]
Assessing the socio-psychological implications of Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights for forest-dwelling communities in Central India
Anirban Roy, Asmita Sengupta Trees, Forests and People | July 13, 2025 In India, the Forest Rights Act (2006) legally recognizes the land rights of forest-dependent and forest-dwelling communities by granting them decision-making power over the lands they have traditionally depended on. Through the Community Forest Resource (CFR) rights, a key provision under this Act, […]
BBMP is painting the lakes green?
Priyanka Jamwal Bangalore Mirror | July 13, 2025 “Shoreline vegetation creates a delicate balance in a lake ecosystem. If removed, cyanobacteria are exposed to a large amount of sunlight, which increases their capability to multiply exponentially. After the bloom, the bacteria also die at the end of the life cycle, forming a layer of organic […]
Towards Sustainable Lake Restoration
Olga Tammeorg, Theis Kragh, Gertrud K. Nürnberg, Laurence Carvalho, Brian Huser, Tom Jilbert, Renata Augustyniak-Tunowska, Tallent Dadi, Kurt Friese, Laura Grinberga, Jolanta K. Grochowska, Sigrid Haande, Laura H. Härkönen, Michael Hupfer, Kenneth Irvine, Priyanka Jamwal, Anna-Marie Klamt, Zhengwen Liu, Yvonne McElarney, Maira Mucci, Deniz Özkundakci, Dāvis Ozoliņš, Emma Polauke, Karen Portilla, Kasper Reitzel, Karsten Rinke, […]
