New Delhi, India — What begins as a quest for the "cool," the "unusual," or the "cute" is rapidly transforming into one of India’s most pressing environmental and public health…
On a humid June morning in 2025, in the Kaliabor region of Assam’s Nagaon district, 24-year-old Niharika Deka took her family’s cattle to graze, stepping in for her mother. By…
For decades, the prevailing narrative in global ecology has suggested that the wealthy, industrialized nations of the Global North are the primary victims of biological invasions. With their massive trade…
The lush, vibrant petals of Lantana camara once graced the manicured gardens of 19th-century colonial India, prized for their ornamental beauty. Today, that same plant is a biological juggernaut, choking…
For decades, the narrative surrounding global biodiversity loss has been dominated by data from the Global North. Conventional wisdom suggested that the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS)—non-native organisms that…
Introduction In the final days of February 2022, as the first missiles struck Kyiv and the geopolitical landscape of Europe was irrevocably altered, a different kind of mobilization began—one fueled…
By Express News Service Waltham, Massachusetts – May 22, 2026 – As the FIFA World Cup 2026 looms larger on the horizon, the global spotlight is beginning to zero in…
Introduction In the final days of February 2022, as the world watched in stunned silence the rapid escalation of Russian military forces into Ukrainian territory, a different kind of mobilization…
In an unprecedented mobilization of the global literary community, more than 1,000 of the world’s most prominent writers, including Nobel laureates and Booker Prize winners, have signed an open letter…
