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6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (270+ words) From Nepal to Assam, floods take a devastating toll on homes and lives every year. But what if homes could rise with the water and stay safe during a flood? That’s the idea behind AmphiNest, a structure that rests on…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (926+ words) Once feared extinct, the pygmy hog is edging back from the brink. This June, 15 captive-bred hogs returned to a stretch of Assam's Manas National Park where the species had left no trace for nine years. Nearly 30 years ago, six tiny…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (682+ words) What looks like clear water can still contain harmful arsenic and fluoride. Researchers at IIT Guwahati team have developed a low-cost system that removes both within minutes, bringing the technology closer to affordable groundwater treatment. A glass of water can…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1304+ words) With Assam preparing to launch its first vulture restaurant in Kulsi, conservationists say managed feeding stations offering toxin-free carcasses may be critical to preventing starvation, breeding collapse, and further decline among India’s endangered vultures. At dawn, a carcass is dragged…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (572+ words) A small carnivore with a deep chocolate-brown coat, reddish-brown forequarters and a distinctive yellow-to-orange throat, the Nilgiri marten is found only in the Western Ghats. It is also one of India’s rarest mammals. She described the Nilgiri marten as “one…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (275+ words) In Assam’s Hatikhuli Ronghang village, wild elephant herds raiding crop fields were a never-ending nightmare for farmers. Today, the same village grows fruits and Napier grass specially for the same elephants! Not long ago, nightfall in Hatikhuli meant terror. Herds…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (358+ words) In 2017, Chethan Shetty left his eight-year corporate career in Bengaluru and returned to Bellare near Mangaluru. He chose his ancestral farm over the certainty of a city job. He had spent his holidays on his grandparents’ farm, playing in paddy…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1055+ words) After nearly eight years, more than 200 patrols and 30 specialised operations, K9 Leon has retired from active service in Assam. From following a suspected rhino poacher through floodwaters to assisting in a gold theft investigation, his career shows how wildlife sniffer dogs…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1485+ words) Once blamed for crocodile attacks it never committed, the critically endangered gharial was disappearing from Bihar’s Gandak River. Today, local communities, fishers and women observers are helping protect one of the world’s last major breeding populations of the species. In…...