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 ...

Many Indo-Pacific finless porpoises die each year along Goa’s coast, but without a population baseline, their conservation status remains unknown. A new study found acoustic surveys detect finless ...

The book The Trees of My Country celebrates India’s trees not for their usefulness to humans, but simply for their existence as living beings. Through lyrical narratives and keen ecological ...

Bengaluru’s record-breaking plantation drive has renewed debate over whether mass tree planting is the most effective way to restore urban ecosystems. The Miyawaki method can rapidly create dense ...

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 ...

A study of the Indian Ocean humpback dolphins off Goa’s coast found that the dolphins socialised and foraged less when tourist boats were around and the probability of foraging increased around ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Cicadas (Cicadoidea) are insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, known for their loud, distinctive calls and long underground life cycles. It is ...

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 ...

Lessons from Brazil, a mature ethanol economy, suggest that ethanol blending is not only selling blended fuel, but building a seamless ecosystem to win consumer trust and satisfaction. In Brazil, ...

India is rapidly rolling out E20 as the default petrol blend, while considering even higher ethanol blends. Brazil is often held up as a model for India, but its ethanol system evolved over decades ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On July 7, 2026, following intense monsoon rain, a massive slope failure hit the tunnel project near Meenakshi Bridge at Kalladi, near Meppadi. The ...