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Natasha Rego

Natasha Rego

Articles by Natasha Rego

Pretty little liars: The struggle to stop the lantana

Lantana camara is now among the most widespread invasive alien species worldwide. (Wikimedia)

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 16:51 IST

Forests and faith do hold the answers: Mridula Ramesh, on her new cli-fi novel

(HT Imaging via Gemini)

Updated on Mar 6, 2026 08:03 IST

The Big Brunch Quiz: Did you vibe with 2025?

We’ve lived through Stranger Things, Wicked stuff and epic Eras in 2025. (SHUTTERSTOCK)

Updated on Dec 26, 2025 12:30 IST

‘We need to move fast’: As Vivek Menon makes history at IUCN, an interview

With a black-banded trinket snake in Meghalaya. (Subhamoy Bhattacharjee)

Updated on Oct 31, 2025 09:05 IST

Butterflies, birds, fish: How the world’s great migrations are dwindling

Wildebeest in the Masai Mara, Kenya. This population is one of only three that still follow their original great migration routes. Many wildebeest populations no longer migrate at all. (Photo by TR Shankar Raman)

Updated on Sep 13, 2025 11:55 IST

Boarding delayed? Scroll, swipe, play at MAP art spaces at Bengaluru airport

Untilted (2018), by the Bhil artist Bhuri Bai from Madhya Pradesh.

Updated on Jul 26, 2025 08:32 IST

Radheshyam Bishnoi: Wildlife conservationist known for works on GIB

He belonged from the Bishnoi community of Rajasthan, who are known for their environmental stewardship. (HT PHOTO)

Updated on May 25, 2025 10:32 IST

Saved as: Check out an exhibition celebrating rejected ideas, incomplete drafts

Stuti Jain’s sculpture Study in Liminality, which exploded in a kiln, missed the exhibition too, but sold at another event.

Updated on Apr 5, 2025 08:59 IST

It takes time, patience: Meet India’s first winner of a Ramsar wetlands award

Her first inspiration, Vencatesan says, was her father Mayur Narasimhan. He worked as a salesperson, lived close to nature. His idea of success was to be useful to society. His idea of society encompassed animals and trees, rivers and lakes. (Ariprasath / Care Earth Trust)

Updated on Apr 5, 2025 08:53 IST

Ancient billboard: Tiny tales emerge from Kashmiri epigraphs

The epigraph at the 600-year-old Jamia Masjid in Srinagar. (Wikimedia Commons, Hakim Sameer Hamdani, Tabish Haider / Barakat Trust)

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 16:51 IST

‘Shompen way of life is set to be eroded,’ says anthropologist Anstice Justin

Anstice Justin, who retired as a deputy regional director with the Anthropological Survey of India, seen at centre, seated with members of the Ung (Jarawa) tribe of the Middle Andamans.

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 10:10 IST

Ghost protocol: Wknd explores the growing threat to world’s uncontacted tribes

(HT illustration: Puneet Kumar)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 09:20 IST

Are social skills in danger, in a hyper-connected world?Robin Dunbar has answers

(Adobe Stock)

Updated on Mar 13, 2025 14:06 IST

Zoom, masks, quarantinis: The pandemic-era glossary

Quarantine babies, remote, quarantinis, and Gloria Gaynor.

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 07:33 IST

These pocket field guides could come in handy on your next trip

Know Your Weeds by Shruti Tharayil is a curated list of 10 wild edible plants found growing on the roadside in neighbourhoods across India.

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 16:19 IST

From civets to snow leopards: Check out this field guide to Indian Mammals

The capped langur, which gets its name from dark patch of fur atop its head, is a forest-dwelling primate native to Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Myanmar. (Vivek Menon)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 15:37 IST

Name, place, animals and trees: A guide to the new field guides of India

1. A wandering wisp damselfly and a paddyfield parasol dragonfly found in north-west India. 2.The Tickell’s blue flycatcher has been spotted in its breeding season in Delhi. 3. The Pila maura or Assam apple snail, found only in the north-east India. 4. The Indian Gaur, one of three species of massive wild cattle found in India. 5. The Hugonia mystax or climbing wax straggler found in the forests of southern India. 6. The Kashmir flycatcher, a winter migrant to South India. 7. An illustration of the wine glass or pencil shaving mushroom, found in Bengaluru. 8. The Khaire’s black shieldtail, a species of burrowing snake endemic to India. 9. The rare galaxy frog found in pockets of the Western Ghats. (Dheerendra Singh, Adobe Stock, Aravind NA, Vivek Menon, Auroville Botanical Gardens, David Raju, Survya Ramachandran, Nuvedo)

Updated on Feb 21, 2025 16:18 IST

Meet the met guy studying, and fretting over, how the Indian monsoon is changing

(HT Photo: Samuel Rajkumar)

Updated on Feb 27, 2025 11:21 IST

Indian-origin banker, musician Chandrika Tandon wins best New Age album Grammy

Chandrika Tandon won the grammy in the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album category for Triveni. (X/Chandrika Tandon)

Updated on Feb 4, 2025 01:22 IST

My Head for a Tree: Author Martin Goodman discusses his new book on the Bishnoi

Martin Goodman with an injured chinkara (Indian gazelle) fawn at the Khejarli animal sanctuary. (Ram Niwas Budhnagar Bishnoi)

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 08:07 IST

Check out more of VU Sabu’s treasured orchids from the Western Ghats

Sabu spends his weekends scouting for wild orchids, and logging data on where and how they grow.

Updated on Jan 4, 2025 09:29 IST

Flower ranger: Meet the self-taught orchid whisperer of Wayanad

Sabu with a Phalaenopsis. He spends his mornings and evenings tending to the 4,000 orchid plants on his farm.

Updated on Jan 4, 2025 09:28 IST

Houston, we have a problem: Astronauts with horror stories in space

Christmas on the ISS. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have now been stranded in space for exactly seven months. (NASA)

Updated on Jan 4, 2025 09:24 IST

A grater mission: The world’s oldest cheese sample tells a story of survival

The cheese, seen at the neck of this Bronze Age mummy, was likely applied as part of a death ritual. (Image: Yichen Liu et al; 2024)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 13:37 IST

Forever and ever?: A timeline of how microplastics got everywhere

(Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 13:35 IST

Rain check: How microplastics can alter climate

In 2023, microplastics were found in the clouds over Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 11:36 IST

Hoard of small things: How you can combat the microplastics menace

Synthetic fibres are a major source of microplastics. A switch to natural fabrics will help. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Dec 23, 2024 08:45 IST

‘We’re using plastic wrong’: Meet the man who coined the term microplastics

(Photo courtesy University of Plymouth)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 13:35 IST

Paying with plastic: How microplastics are changing our world

(Adobe Firefly)

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 18:01 IST

Leap ears: AI is storming the headphones space

(Clockwise from top left) hearing aids from Orka, Starkey, Oticon, Phonak, Signia, Widex and Apple.

Updated on Nov 9, 2024 14:11 IST

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