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Two kilos of soil with a Rs 68 lakh return: The Maharashtra village that struck biodiversity gold

India, March 15 -- Villagers in Dapur, Maharashtra, received an unexpected Rs 68 lakh payment in their Gram Panchayat account. The money came after a company used bacteria from soil collected in the ... Read More


Maharashtra considers using teak forest revenue to support Ladki Bahin welfare scheme

India, March 13 -- Maharashtra is considering raising funds from teak forests to support the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana The welfare scheme provides Rs 1,500 a month to women from low-incom... Read More


Rising temperatures begin to reshape behaviour of plants and wildlife across India, say scientists

India, March 13 -- Unusually high temperatures across India are disrupting the natural cycles of plants and wildlife Scientists report early flowering, delayed bird nesting and altered behaviour amon... Read More


Counting the glow: India's first firefly checklist reveals 92 species

India, March 13 -- Scientists have compiled the first comprehensive checklist of India's fireflies, documenting 92 species across 27 genera More than 60% of the recorded species are endemic to India,... Read More


Maharashtra's downgrading of legal protection for leopards symbolic, aims to facilitate Vantara: experts

India, March 13 -- Experts say that Maharashtra's move to reclassify the leopard (Panthera pardus) from Schedule I to Schedule II of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 or WLPA is setting a wrong prec... Read More


In this Kerala town, ponds, farms and commons shaped its plans for the future

India, March 12 -- Residents of a small Kerala town rejected a state-led development blueprint they feared would destroy farms, water systems and livelihoods. Instead of going to court, the municipal... Read More


Bird flu emerges as significant threat to migratory wildlife, as species see decline of 5% in just 2 years: Report

India, March 6 -- A new report has warned that 49 per cent of global migratory species populations protected under the Convention of Migratory Species (CMS) are declining, having decreased five per ce... Read More


Coal V Corridor in tiger country

India, March 2 -- Tourist guides operating in Bandhavgarh say that one cannot visit the National Park and return without spotting a tiger-such is the density of the animal in the forest. The tiger res... Read More


New climate states emerging in India, with drought exacerbating moisture and rainfall: Arpit Tiwari at AAD 2026

India, Feb. 26 -- New climate states are emerging in India, with the country entering a novel climate regime owing to climate change factored by local anomalies (SLA), the emergence of non-analogue cl... Read More


Land-use change reshaping spider communities in the Himalayas, finds research

India, Feb. 23 -- Study finds land-use change and elevation reshaping spider communities in the north-western Indian Himalayas Functional diversity declines with altitude, reducing ecosystem resilien... Read More