Aditi Tandon

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Aditi Tandon is the Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India.

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Major mugger habitats lie outside protected areas

Sneha Mahale 6 Jul 2026
A beekeeper in the Nilgiris harvests honey from her hive. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

Indigenous women build new livelihoods with hive boxes

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2026
An Indian wolf spotted in the grasslands of Kiraksal. Image by Himesh Gahir/Green Hub.

Village documents 600 species through a community-led survey

Vinaya Kurtkoti 22 Jun 2026
A rural woman operates an electrical control box that powers irrigation pumps for agricultural fields. Image by Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bonn talks signal a new energy transition narrative, even as old divides persist

Kundan Pandey 19 Jun 2026
Researchers measure the length of the Indian tree frog (Polypedatus maculatus). During the monsoon, this tree-dwelling species breeds in ephemeral pools found across the foothills of the Western Ghats. Many of these pools are now being developed into deeper waterbodies. Image by Madhushri Mudke.

Study finds urbanisation is reshaping frog communities in the Western Ghats

Ananya Singh 18 Jun 2026
Municipal workers rescue fish from a dried lake at Ratanpura in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, during a drought in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

El Niño forecast increases likelihood of weak monsoon and water stress

Phalguni Ranjan 18 Jun 2026
An iron ore mine in Chhattisgarh. Representative image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Mining project overlaps wildlife corridor, ignites debate

Arathi Menon 15 Jun 2026
An adult olive ridley turtle. Image by Jonathan Reynaga via Pexels.

A long-distance ocean traveller

Team Mongabay-India 10 Jun 2026
A female belonging to the new-to-science fanged frog species, Limnonectes motijheel, in her natural habitat at Namdapha Tiger Reserve. Image by Abhijit Das.

Researchers describe a new fanged frog species that builds mud nests on the forest floor

Ananya Singh 9 Jun 2026

Study reveals how air pollution disrupts foetal growth

Simrin Sirur 5 Jun 2026
Volunteers clean up plastic and other waste materials on a beach in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

India’s waste-climate opportunity begins before disposal [Commentary]

Kaushik Chandrasekhar, Balakrishna Pisupati 5 Jun 2026
A man exits a foot bridge over a flooded street after heavy monsoon rains in Guwahati, Assam in 2025. Representative image. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A strong El Niño demands planning, not panic [Commentary]

Madhavan Nair Rajeevan 3 Jun 2026
A lion cub in Gir. Image by Anushree Potdar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

After eight lions die from Babesia infection, treatment and isolation controls spread

Simrin Sirur 2 Jun 2026
A Brahminy kite. Representative image by Hari K. Patibanda via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Artificial light at night alters foraging behaviour in kites

Nikhil Sreekandan 2 Jun 2026
Gojri buffalos. Image by Neha Negi.

How nomadic herders sustain forests [Commentary]

Najakat Ali, Neha Negi, Neema P. Broome 1 Jun 2026
A jackal and a tiger in Panna. Image by Supratim Dutta.

Predator-prey relationships and habitat quality shape a tiger reserve

Sneha Mahale 27 May 2026
Team Plas-Stick and their solution (a handheld magnet attracts a clump of waste tamarind seed powder and microplastics. Image courtesy of The Earth Prize.

Indian students win The Earth Prize for microplastics solution

Arathi Menon 25 May 2026

Local land-atmosphere processes influence heatwaves

T. V. Padma 21 May 2026
A male cheetah at a zoo in Hyderabad, India. Representative image. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

Project Cheetah takes new turns as young males explore the wild

Arathi Menon 21 May 2026
Excelsa coffee fruits at an estate in Kodagu district, Karnataka. Image courtesy of South India Coffee Company (SICC).

The search for climate resilient coffee in a warming world

Meena Menon 21 May 2026

What a warming Pacific could mean for India’s monsoon and farming

Max Martin 20 May 2026
An Indian pangolin. Image by A.J.T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The mammal wrapped in a shield of scales

Team Mongabay-India 20 May 2026

Expressway underpasses see early wildlife movement

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 May 2026
Amblyceps vayavy, a new species of freshwater fish discovered from the Western Ghats. Image by Abhishek Shirke.

New-to-science catfish sheds light on west-flowing rivers of the Western Ghats

Lisann Dias 18 May 2026
A home guard member works to set up a temporary shelter following storms in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh on May 14. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Storms and lightning kill over 100 in Uttar Pradesh

Kundan Pandey 18 May 2026
A peacock tarantula. Image courtesy of Wingham Wildlife Park.

Rare peacock tarantula gets dedicated conservation survey

Arathi Menon 14 May 2026
Food delivery personnel take rest under the shade of a tree as they await their next order in Kochi, Kerala. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

Workers groups are pushing for legal protections against deadly heat

Simrin Sirur 13 May 2026
Neil Island in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. Image by Vishal Jadav via Pexels.

High Court bench to hear PILs challenging Great Nicobar clearance

Simrin Sirur 12 May 2026
High-tension power lines. Image by Ujjwal Kishore via Pexels.

India bets on data centres even as water, energy-use concerns mount

Priyanka Shankar 12 May 2026
A sarpa kaavu in Kannur district, Kerala. Image by Manoj Karingamadathil via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

The changing fate of Kerala’s sacred groves [Commentary]

Nibha Namboodiri 11 May 2026
A biogas plant setup at Sahyadri School in Pune district. Image courtesy of Aditya Kamble/Vaayu Mitra.

LPG shortage leads to increased demand for clean-cooking solutions

Shuchita Jha 11 May 2026
An active urban freshwater spring channeled through PVC piping amidst residential buildings in Tadong, Gangto, Sikkim. Image by Avantika Thapa.

Overlooked urban springs can strengthen water security in Himalayan cities [Commentary]

Sailendra Dewan, Niharika Bindal 11 May 2026

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