Crabs in the red

Supercolonies of crazy ants threaten the red crabs of Australia's unique Christmas Island

Reserved to death

Sikkim to delegate powers to local people to protect lakes

Goa's disappearing khazan farms dying a slow death

Where are the tapovans?

Both India and China are ancient civilisations possessing characteristic indigenous knowledge of conservation of natural ecosystems. The Chinese …

Nature-based solutions: Convenient ignorance of the inconvenient truth

Solutions based on going back to nature do exist, but to make a tangible impact on climate change, they need to be executed at scale and with …

Sixth Extinction? Over 150,000 species vanished in last 500 years

Nearly half of 177 mammal species surveyed lost more than 80% of their distribution between 1900 and 2015

Harness power of nature-based solutions to fight climate crisis: G20 ministers

G20 countries identify need for sustainable business models to implement nature-based solutions in developing countries; but they lack direction

List of threatened species gets longer a year before prevention target

International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List shows that every fifth species is threatened with extinction

Photographic identities may help in elephant census: Study

Researchers used the technique to estimate Asian elephant populations in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam

Voluntary commitments can protect the ocean

Since the time taken to negotiate environmental commitments is not always worth the outcome, the UN Ocean Conference is doing away with this time lag

Bucking extinction

Even as the number of species nearing extinction increases each year, here's a look at the conservation strategies that have helped revive four …

Why this magazine?

As we celebrate our 28th anniversary, here's looking back at the first-ever editorial by Anil Agarwal as DTE started its journey

Tracking Tigers

The pugmark method of counting tigers in the wild is a tedious exercise. But this method really works amidst all modern criticism and technology

Hair oil

Hair and oil spills: what's the connection?

Colours of Nature

An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants

Reviving East Timbalier

The beacon

Several social groups are trying to restore the link between Hinduism and the environment

Erosion of values

...and how it leads to environmental degradation

Compromised!

Tiger reserve security in Karnataka

Street food vendors threatened after court ruling

Strangers in their own land

The final notification of the Great Himalayan National Park has jeopardised the livelihood of a tribe of migratory pastoralists. It has also …

Acid rain arriving soon in India

It wreaked havoc in Europe. Now scientists are worried that acid rain may soon acquire grave proportions in India. Acid rainwater may cause …

Shawls, an antelope and the law

The question is not just of farming chiru. It is about the policy that a country should have towards wildlife conservation, forest dwelling …

Disappearing tree

An evergreen tree found only in Africa is on the verge of extinction because of large-scale stripping of its bark