"I had noticed earlier that my illness subsided when I had access to the wilderness. Time spent outdoors in wild places were the only happy memories in an otherwise confused and chaotic few years."

“My support system now is almost entirely comprised of Noah. But as the argument goes, Noah is a dog, and Noah is not welcome in most places I would love to work in.”

"I had survived another trip to the river but the depression and solastalgia were too deeply ingrained for me to shake off."

Kutch, a typical desert during the summer, metamorphoses after rains into one of Asia's largest natural grasslands. It is a system so dynamic that throwing an invasive weed into the mix is like...

Zeroing in on the genesis of the Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) has been called “possibly the most dramatic epidemiological detective story of our time.”

Within a year of the Union Cabinet sanctioning Rs.1,500 crore for its construction, the India-based Neutrino Observatory has become stalled, hemmed in by party politics, anti-nuclear activism and...

V. Ramachandran, a metallurgist from IISc, recalls how he and his colleagues found telltale evidence of a bomb blast while working from two ships in the rough waters of the Atlantic.

Mukund Thattai examines the steady growth of the All India People’s Science Network and the decline of India’s universities in search of reasons to remain hopeful about how, and why, India conducts...

The International Astronomical Union recognised the efforts of this group, based in Mumbai, and gave them a grant for their pioneering ‘Astronomers on Foot’ programme.

One reason to expect the three genes used in transgenic mustard to be safe is that they aren’t new at all. They have been in the human food-chain for around two decades now.

Melioidosis is the stuff of tragedy. The bacterium that causes it can affect different organs in different people, throwing off doctors and leading to misdiagnosis and death.

The term 'mean sea level' sounds simple. As it turns out, tracking it reliably is not simple at all.

In many cases, the British reserved 'dangerous' landscapes as forests because they served up plenty of 'exotic' game for hunting. But in the case of the Wenlock Downs near Ooty, homesickness also...

Dam-builders seldom keep their promises and the government has failed to stop their infrastructural orgies. We thus have a disease of gigantism on our hands crippling the Chambal's ecology.

A small group of experts learns to shed its fear of heights, scaling 40-m-high trees to prepare nests that hornbills and their young can be safe in.

Much remains unknown in the rainforest.

Shoot the tigers – always tigers.

Sujoy Guha has spent four decades trying to realise Risug, an unusual long-term use reversible male contraceptive. It should have come to be 14 years ago.

While photography has to some extent displaced painting and drawing as a means of documenting plant life, botanical art continues to have a life in today's world.

The American bioethics professor Joseph Fins called the COVID-19 pandemic a 'stress test for bioethics', acknowledging that even ethicists 'ignored a tale of inequity unfolding around us'.

K.S. Manilal first chanced upon the 'Hortus Malabaricus' in his father’s clippings from Malayalam newspapers of the 1950s, when he was still in school.

More than an icon for a species or subspecies driven to extinction, Sudan has come to symbolise contested territory in the conservation of African wildlife.

Scientists using the GRAPES-3 telescope, which detects and studies cosmic rays coming from space, think they have a new way to anticipate and prepare for geomagnetic storms.