The Khasi pine forests of Shillong: a century-old monoculture under scrutiny
The Khasi pine forests that ring Shillong were largely planted over the past century, replacing broadleaf…
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Category: Environment & Climate
Rivers, forests, wildlife and the climate crisis on the front line.
The Brahmaputra’s dolphin survey: counting the river’s rarest resident
The Gangetic river dolphin, the blind cetacean that navigates by sound, survives in the Brahmaputra in…
Assam’s rhino corridor: how a railway is learning to share the park
The railway line that threads through Kaziranga National Park kills animals every year — and the…
The Great Indian Hornbill count: Nagaland’s biggest bird census
The great hornbill — the bird whose silhouette crowns Nagaland’s biggest festival — is the subject…
The Mizoram pine-sap harvest: a wild economy under threat
The resin tapped from Mizoram’s pine forests — sold to paint and soap factories across India…
The Meghalaya state bird rescue: hornbills, power lines and a rehabilitation wing
Meghalaya’s hornbills, the state’s emblem, are dying on power lines at a rate that alarmed even…
Assam’s jute revival: the fibre that built the plains comes back
The jute fields of the Brahmaputra plains, which fed a mill economy a generation ago, are…
The Mizoram Aizawl–Lunglei highway: the road that splits the state’s future
The four-lane highway that will connect Aizawl to Lunglei is the most ambitious road project in…
The Sikkim butterfly survey: a tiny state’s enormous biodiversity census
Sikkim, the second-smallest state in India, has logged 700 butterfly species — more than any state…
The Apatani fish-in-field tradition: aquaculture that never floods a paddy
In the Apatani valley’s terraced fields, rice and fish share the same water: fingerlings released at…