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October 22, 2026
Friends of Finn’s Weaver: Three students and the search for coexistence at Haripura
As agricultural expansion and commercial harvesting threaten the nesting habitat of Finn’s Weaver in the vanishing Terai grasslands around Haripura Reservoir in lower Kumaon, Uttarakhand, three local school students—guided by the Nature Science Initiative—are championing its survival
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August 16, 2026
Has the monsoon lost its manners?
Monsoon chaos is personified as a badly mannered guest, exposing poor infrastructure, flawed civic planning, and society's littering habits with its unpredictable and destructive arrival
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January 24, 2026
Do trees explode in cold? Extreme cold makes trees split, but 'frost cracks' are harmless
Frost cracks occur when temperatures drop suddenly or trees don’t have time to adjust to the cold, and the sap inside them starts to freeze
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December 18, 2025
Who are Romulus Whitaker's favourite nature writers? THIS Chennai author is one of them
At the Blue & Green Climate LitFest in Kochi, herpetologist Romulus Whitaker picked his top two nature writers. One evergreen, and the second one from the younger crop
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October 11, 2025
How a Dutch governor's passion for Malabar flora inspired India's ‘genome man’
The Hortus Malabaricus Garden is a 27-acre botanical project in Kerala, inspired by the historic plant treatise compiled by Dutch governor Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede. Created by tech entrepreneur Sam Santhosh, it showcases Malabar's rich plant diversity, blending ancient Ayurvedic knowledge with modern genomic research
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July 05, 2025
Bikaner's Jorbeer: A winter home to thousands of birds of prey
Jorbeer, a unique vulture conservation reserve near Bikaner, Rajasthan, attracts thousands of birds of prey every winter. This extraordinary site, with its dedicated feeding ground, showcases the successful conservation efforts of local residents and the thriving raptor population