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Chumki Mondol, a farmer.

Degraded soil threatens to exacerbate Bangladesh food crisis

Abu Siddique 30 Dec 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

For Nepal, 2022 was a roaring Year of the Tiger

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Dec 2022
Pleione praecox flowers.

Illegal orchid trade threatens Nepal’s ‘tigers of the plant world’

Abhaya Raj Joshi 28 Dec 2022
A man carries a feral dog.

Himalayan community takes initiative to help dogs, wildlife and itself

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Dec 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

Of Yetis and extinct turtles: Top wildlife discoveries in Nepal in 2022

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Dec 2022
A greater one-horned rhino and her calf.

Crafting Nepal’s conservation success: Q&A with Sharad Chandra Adhikary

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Dec 2022
A capped langur crosses a canopy bridge.

Wildlife at risk in Bangladesh as roads run rampant through protected forests

Maksuda Aziz 21 Dec 2022
Lulilan obscurus is a newly discovered scorpionfly from Nepal. Image courtesy of Rainer Willmann

‘Bizarre’ newly classified scorpionfly shines light on Nepal’s insect diversity

Abhaya Raj Joshi 17 Dec 2022
Shanties stand along the bank of Buriganga River.

In Bangladesh, Ecologically Critical Areas exist only on paper

Abu Siddique 16 Dec 2022
Two western hoolock gibbons.

Trafficking and habitat loss spell doom for Bangladesh’s western hoolock gibbons

Rafiqul Islam 14 Dec 2022

Green and gossamer, and not gone: A Sri Lankan dragonfly flits back to life

Dilrukshi Handunnetti 3 Dec 2022
Used polythene waste on the banks of Buriganga River.

Dhaka’s ailing sewage system threatens human and environmental health

S.M. Najmus Sakib 30 Nov 2022
Farmers harvesting eggplants.

In Bangladesh, popular eggplant comes with a side of lead. And cadmium

Abu Siddique 29 Nov 2022
A red panda.

New standard brings best practices to bear in Nepal’s red panda conservation

Abhaya Raj Joshi 29 Nov 2022

Sri Lanka university aims to be the country’s first to go carbon neutral

Malaka Rodrigo 26 Nov 2022

Hunting takes its toll on Himalaya’s blue sheep, favored prey of snow leopards

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Nov 2022
black softshell turtle

In Nepal, a turtle that rose from the dead makes another grand entrance

Abhaya Raj Joshi 21 Nov 2022

Ahead of polls, Nepal’s political parties, voters take heed of climate impacts

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Nov 2022
wild yaks in Nepal

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022
Air pollution in Kathmandu.

Another winter of discontent as Kathmandu braces for deadly air pollution

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Nov 2022
Fish eggs from the Halda River.

Fish eggs return to Bangladesh’s Halda River following conservation efforts

Abu Siddique 2 Nov 2022

Who let the dogs out? Feral canines pose a threat to Nepal’s wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022
Water line in Kathmandu

In temperate Nepal, climate change paves way for tropical dengue fever

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Oct 2022

Shipping lane change could be sea change for Sri Lanka’s blue whales

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Oct 2022
A scientist waves to a fish in the trapping zone.

Deep dive uncovers previously unknown underwater ecosystem in Maldives

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 Oct 2022
Fishermen making hilsa nets.

Saving the economically important hilsa fish comes at a cost to Bangladesh fishers

Abu Siddique 28 Oct 2022
Pits dug by the bears.

It’s no Yeti, but Tibetan brown bear’s presence in Nepal is no longer a myth

Abhaya Raj Joshi 26 Oct 2022
Budha looking for snails in a cave.

‘A mollusk is as important as a tiger’: Q&A with Prem Bahadur Budha

Abhaya Raj Joshi 25 Oct 2022
E-waste management.

Bangladesh e-waste rules hang in limbo as electrical goods companies ask for delay

Maksuda Aziz 21 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
A cordycep dealer.

Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Oct 2022

Dog shooting highlights Sri Lanka’s need for stricter animal cruelty laws

Hassaan Shazuli 14 Oct 2022

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