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Image shows a deep mining pit surrounded by layers of dug-up soil and trees in the background

Goa mining: new regime, bigger challenges

Pamela D'Mello 30 Sep 2024
School kids are playing in the playground. India introduced its new National Education Policy in 2020, but the climate vulnerability of the education sector is missing from this policy as well. Image by Shailesh Shrivastava

Your Environment This Week: Schools feel the heat, Forest loss in hotspots, Polluted Dal lake

Team Mongabay-India 27 Sep 2024
The Hummingbird School campus of Assam during the 2017 floods. Image by special arrangement.

Schools feel the heat as closures increase with extreme weather events

Shailesh Shrivastava 27 Sep 2024

Pollution, construction threatens Kashmir’s iconic Dal lake, chinar trees

Athar Parvaiz 27 Sep 2024
Women preparing mahua laddu. Image by Mukesh Mahato.

[Commentary] Mahua and its products need GI recognition

Abhijit Dey, Akriti 26 Sep 2024
Namdeo Sahebrao Kakode, secretary of Borgaon Math’s village development committee, says applying silt has transformed their crops from short to healthy. Image by Nidhi Jamwal.

Desilting tanks for improving water security and soil health

Nidhi Jamwal 25 Sep 2024

Lesser adjutants thrive in a Jharkhand district, finds study

Vinaya Kurtkoti 24 Sep 2024
A landscape view of Champawat town, Uttarakhand. Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change in the Himalayas. Image by WhiteRaven335 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Urban expansion drives forest loss in India’s biodiversity hotspots

T. V. Padma 23 Sep 2024
Binod Kumar Mahto stands next to the automatic irrigation system. Image by Vishal Kumar Jain.

Your Environment This Week: AI and farming, Conference of Panchayats

Team Mongabay-India 20 Sep 2024
An electric scooter manufacturing unit in India. With rapid growth, urbanisation, and environmental challenges such as air and water pollution, India’s green technology market is attracting major international interest. Image by Gnoeee via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Amid the global green goods boom, India is yet to jump on the bandwagon

Kundan Pandey 20 Sep 2024

[Commentary] Kerala is a hotspot within a hotspot

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 19 Sep 2024

Pollution dips, but fine particulate matter remains top public health threat: AQLI report

Vinaya Kurtkoti 18 Sep 2024

Addressing climate vulnerabilities in a conference of panchayats

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Sep 2024
Bottle gourds from Mahto’s farm being prepared for market dispatch. Image by Vishal Kumar Jain.

A Jharkhand farmer uses AI and technology to modernise farming

Vishal Kumar Jain 16 Sep 2024

Your Environment This Week: Indian savannas, secret lives of small cats, food insecurity in the Himalayas

Team Mongabay-India 13 Sep 2024

[Interview] Vigyan awardee Purabi Saikia on the importance of mapping forest resources

Simrin Sirur 13 Sep 2024

Operation Bhediya reveals gaps in human-wildlife conflict mitigation

Arathi Menon, Nikhil Sahu 13 Sep 2024

A new remote sensing study spotlights Indian savannas

Nikhil Sreekandan 12 Sep 2024

Capturing the secret lives of small cats

Nabarun Guha 11 Sep 2024

[Explainer] What is micro irrigation?

Vandana K. 10 Sep 2024