Study finds plants, which were earlier found in lower elevations, are now replacing the native vegetation of the higher altitudes.  

Tetrastemma freyae [Image credits: Mohandhas S Vignesh]

^{Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash}

Researchers use ultra-small graphene particles to develop a new soil moisture sensor

In a new study, researchers from the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, and SASTRA University, have studied what trade-offs drive movement of butterflies.

^{A group of enthusiastic birders take part in the survey for Kerala Bird Atlas. [Image credits: Kerala Bird Atlas]}

Over a thousand birdwatchers, working for over five years, complete Kerala’s first Bird Atlas.

^{A woman cooking food using improved cookstoves [Image credits: Udaipur Urja Initiatives]}

^{A Hoolock Gibbon from Meghalaya [Image Credits: Programme HURO / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]}

The specimen, which is millions of years older than any previously known fossil, highlights their migration from Africa to Asia.

^{A pair of Crested treeswift with its egg [Image credits: Aditya Pal / CC BY-SA 4.0]}

Mathematical models show that males should be selected to care more for their offspring rather than desert them.

^{Some cryptic species of frogs in the Western Ghats (Left Top: Indirana semipalamata (Image credits: Saunak Pal), Left-Bottom: Indirana beddomii (Image Credits: Saunak Pal), Right-Top:}

^{Drought-stricken farmland in Karnataka [Image Credits: Pushkarv / CC BY-SA 3.0)}

With climate change occurring at an alarming speed, study finds that temperatures across many parts of the globe, including South Asia, could reach the breaking point by 2050.