Researchers have discovered two new species of dragonflies from the Western Ghat - Merogomphus aryanadensis from Kerala and Merogomphus flavoreductus from Maharashtra.

The first-of-a-kind study has used remote sensing data to quantify long-term soil losses across the entire Western Ghats region.

Diatoms — single-celled algae — can be indicators of the health of Karnataka’s rare Myristica swamps

Not more than two decades ago, I played with snails on rainy days and would see them crawling abundantly on plants. My friends and I would collect them in glass bottles, treating them as pets.

It appears that snails have almost vanished from our gardens. Lush green landscapes and trees have dwindled to become a few patches of green separated by tall buildings in between.

Researchers find a greater abundance but an altered epiphyte community in selectively logged forests

Sigur plateau in the Western Ghats may be ideal for a vulture-sanctuary, say researchers. 

^{The four species of newly-discovered tiger moths. Left to right: First row: O. suryamal rekhae,  O. suryamal. Second row: O. zedesi and O. ghatmatha [Image credits: Aparna Kalawate]}

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth.
O, these deliberate fools! When they do choose,
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.

^{(a) Shola reedtail (Protosticta sholai) [Image credits: K. A. Subramanian]; (b) blue-legged reedtail (Protosticta cyanofemora) [Image credits: Shantanu Joshi]; (c) Myristica reedtail (Protosticta myristicaensis) [Image credits: Shantanu Joshi]}

^{Eastern Ghat Cricket Frog [Image credits: Prudhvi Raj]}

Researchers discover a visibly different individual of the Eastern Ghats cricket frogs, in the Western Ghats

^{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:}