TopicBiodiversity

Topic: Biodiversity

33 years after nuclear explosion, Chernobyl has become a wildlife paradise

German Orizaola - May 12, 2019

The biodiversity in the Chernobyl exclusion zone shows wildlife is more resistant to radiation than previously thought.

‘Plant a tree, save the climate’ isn’t good enough

Bloomberg View - April 29, 2019

Many countries seem to assume that commercial tree plantations or planting trees amidst crops is enough. Yet only natural forests trap ample quantities of CO2.

The microbes inside your garden wall have clues to ancient earth’s biological evolution

Matthew Brown - March 3, 2019

The amoebae can be predators, but they can also be grazers, or even harbor symbiotic algae that produce their food, making them primary producers.

This researcher has named his latest find after Modi govt’s top science official

Sandhya Ramesh - December 26, 2018

Zeeshan Mirza, a researcher at the NCBS, has over 35 discoveries to his name but says he’s always had trouble with academics.

Study traces how the British ruined Western Ghats, one of India’s most unique ecosystems

Sandhya Ramesh - November 9, 2018

A biodiversity hotspot, Western Ghats continue to be done in by the British belief that its grasslands were wastelands.

Prince William shows conservation still has a problem with ‘white saviours’

Hannah Mumby - October 28, 2018

Decades after independence of many countries in the Global South, conservation still has this (neo-)colonial undertone.

How football can help protect wildlife

Courtney Hughes - August 18, 2018

A society of wildlife conservation is using football and naming teams after local animals, to foster affinity for wildlife in the African nation of Cameroon.

Global deforestation is accelerating and nature is alerting us this is urgent

Frances Seymour - July 10, 2018

Despite mounting efforts to protect tropical forests, deforestation is reaching a scale of global catastrophe.

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Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

Shruti Vyas - August 2, 2025

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.