Floods and landslides devastate Northeast India after record rains

Guwahati, June 9 -- Nabarun Guha For the past week, parts of Northeast India have experienced unprecedented rainfall, causing floods and landslides, with several villages submerged and roads cut off.... Read More

Nagaland: Stingless bees make greenhouse farming easier and better

Guwahati, June 7 -- Arathi Menon Researchers from Nagaland University have identified stingless bee species that can pollinate efficiently to increase agricultural yield. This finding, the researcher... Read More

Why trees outside forests matter for your well-being

Guwahati, June 5 -- Aisiri Amin Trees outside forests in places such as farms and grazing land, provide a wide variety of benefits to humans. Yet, there is limited understanding of how tree restorati... Read More

Assam: First photo evidence of a clouded leopard hunting a Bengal slow loris

Guwahati, May 30 -- Nabarun Guha The first ever photographic evidence of a clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) predating on a Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) was captured in December 2024 ... Read More

Understanding the consequences of forest land encroachment

Guwahati, May 27 -- C. R. Bijoy Forest 'encroachment' under the legal cover of the Forest Act of 1865, commenced with the inception of the Imperial Forest Department in 1864, now India's Forest Depar... Read More

Nepal's old Buddhist incense tradition hit by too much harvesting, climate change

Guwahati, May 17 -- Durga Rana Magar MANANG, Nepal - In Bhakra village of western Nepal's Manang district, 72-year-old Buddhist nun Tashi Lama sits in silence, chanting as she turns her prayer wheel.... Read More

Meghalaya: Life in the world's most polluted city, Byrnihat

Guwahati, May 14 -- Nabarun Guha "Even if we close all our windows, doors and ventilators, the dust enters. We can't dry our clothes outside, children can't play outside, how much we might clean our ... Read More

Forests can both reduce and increase malaria risks, impacting mortality rates

Guwahati, May 9 -- Simrin Sirur In 1990, India reportedapproximately 33 million cases of malaria. By 2019, that number plummeted to 5.5 million due to a host of government interventions designed to r... Read More

Assam: Fossil study uses climate history to predict ecological changes

Guwahati, May 5 -- Arathi Menon The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in Assam, sends a clear message: if global warmin... Read More

Assam: Fossil study uses climate history to predict ecological changes.

Guwahati, May 5 -- Arathi Menon The recent discovery of fossil evidence of a tree species now considered endemic to the Western Ghats, in a coalfield in Assam, sends a clear message: if global warmin... Read More

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