Biswabrata Goswami Midnapore, 26 March: Against the backdrop of intensifying climate challenges and growing global concern over biodiversity loss, the Fourth Botanical Congress commenced on Thursday
Category: Nature
Students turn spotlight on Hansadanga Beel on World Wetlands Day
Biswabrata Goswami KRISHNAGAR, 2 FEB: On the curving edge of the Jalangi river, where a horseshoe-shaped wetland quietly sustains life beyond public notice, students traded classrooms
White surprise on Ajodhya hills: science, not snow, behind Purulia’s morning mystery
Biswabrata Goswami PURULIA, 15 JAN: At daybreak, when the Ajodhya Hill Range usually wakes to birdsong and mist, morning walkers in Begunkodar, Jhalda and Bagmundi
Villagers rise to save Purulia’s ancient hills as granite mining scars geo-heritage
Biswabrata Goswami KOLKATA, 29 DEC: Under the winter sun of western Purulia, the rocky silhouettes of Tillaboni and Panjaniya hills stood witness on Sunday to a
Save Jalangi pushes for heritage tag for Nadia’s riverine cultural sites
Biswabrata Goswami KRISHNAGAR, 5 DEC: In a decisive push to safeguard the river-centred cultural memory of Bengal, heritage activists of Save Jalangi (West Bengal) on Friday met Aneesh
Tiger census begins in Sundarbans with massive trap-camera network; tourism to shut for two days
Biswabrata Goswami KOLKATA, 28 NOV: In the silent, tidal heart of the Sundarbans—where mangrove shadows shift with the incoming tide and the rustle of the Royal
The City That Forgot How to Flow
“Every heavy downpour today overwhelms Kolkata’s capacity to breathe. Once a city of canals and wetlands, it now gasps beneath its own concrete.” Biswabrata Goswami
Gopalpur’s biodiversity park faces a growing human-nature conflict
Biswabrata Goswami MIDNAPORE, 13 OCT: Just a few kilometres from Midnapore town, in the sunburnt lateritic heartland of Murakata, stands a park that was once hailed as
IIT Kharagpur flags global study warning of unequal exposure to climate shocks
Biswabrata Goswami MIDNAPORE, 8 OCT: Extreme weather is not striking all people equally, and the world must prepare for a deeply unequal future under climate change.
Three elephants, including two calves, crushed by Janshatabdi express in Jhargram despite prior warning
Biswabrata Goswami MIDNAPORE, 18 JULY: In a chilling reminder of the perils that stalk wildlife corridors crisscrossed by expanding infrastructure, three elephants — an adult and
