Aditi Tandon

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Aditi Tandon is the Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India.

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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
A rural cooperative gathering. Representative image by Marcel Crozet/ILO via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Climate shocks strain the microfinance sector, says a policy brief

Kundan Pandey 8 May 2026
A Chinese pangolin rescued and released by Wildlife Trust of India in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Panjit Basumatary/WTI.

A community leads protection of the pangolin in a critical illegal trade corridor

Kasturi Das 7 May 2026
A family prepares a makeshift tent on a road after evacuating the flooded banks of Yamuna River. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

System failures, not just climate stress, push people to migrate

Arathi Menon 7 May 2026

The fading climate shields

Amir Bin Rafi 5 May 2026
Labourers sleep on a road median in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s heat crisis is a labour, health and finance challenge, says white paper

Manish Chandra Mishra 5 May 2026
The drying Tunga River in Karnataka during summer. Representative image by Lenin Moorthy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Riverine heatwaves are on the rise

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 4 May 2026

Indian skimmer conservationist wins award for community conservation model

Aditi Tandon 30 Apr 2026
Amur falcon. Image by Touhid biplob via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The bird of prey that crosses continents

Team Mongabay-India 29 Apr 2026
Hard-ground swamp deer in their new habitat in Satpura Tiger Reserve. Image by L. Krishnamoorthy.

India’s rare swamp deer establishes a second home

Sneha Mahale 28 Apr 2026
Trees at a park in Kochi, Kerala. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

New database captures urban tree diversity

Simrin Sirur 27 Apr 2026
A sarus crane feeds its offspring. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, and Shekha jheel is a critical stronghold for the species. Representative image by Drsssuresh1961 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ramsar wetland tag needs to be followed up with sustained management, say experts

Manish Chandra Mishra 24 Apr 2026

The ‘correction’ clause rewriting Goa’s landscape

Simrin Sirur, Hagen Desa 23 Apr 2026

Birds are colliding with glass. Few in India are counting.

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Apr 2026
Striped hyenas face threats like habitat loss and degradation, prey depletion, human-wildlife conflict, direct persecution and illegal trade. Image by Manish Kumar Chattopadhyay.

Striped hyena gets stronger global protection

Manish Chandra Mishra 22 Apr 2026
Melting glaciers in Uttarakhand. Global warming and melting glaciers are releasing antibiotic resistance genes into our environments. Image by Sharada Prasad via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Ancient glaciers reveal the roots of antimicrobial resistance

Nupur Fangaria 21 Apr 2026
Delegates in the plenary hall during COP29 in Baku. Image courtesy of UNFCCC via Flickr

India signals shift in climate priorities amid global uncertainty

Kundan Pandey 17 Apr 2026
A ragpicker collects plastic to recycle from a garbage dump in Siliguri, West Bengal. (AP Photo/Tamal Roy)

When recycling plastic creates more problems than it solves

Ravleen Kaur 16 Apr 2026
A 2017 image of a tigress is Agarzai buffer area of TATR in Chandrapur. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

Ecological debate over iron ore halts mining bid in tiger landscape

Arathi Menon 15 Apr 2026
Image by Vardhanjp via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The ocean grazer tending seagrass fields

Team Mongabay-India 8 Apr 2026
Volunteers clear plastic and other garbage littered on the shores of Mumbai on World Environment Day in 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Why environmental policy must integrate behavioural change [Commentary]

Balakrishna Pisupati, Flavia Lopes 8 Apr 2026
Recently, the first camera trap image of a tiger in Dibru Saikhowa was captured by the forest department. Image courtesy of Dibru Saikhowa National Park.

Photographic evidence provides clues about tiger presence

Nabarun Guha 6 Apr 2026
A rhino released in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve. Image by Vipin Kapoor Saini.

Rewilding rhinos as part of a long-term conservation plan

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Apr 2026
A study on forest fire susceptibility found that the area highly susceptible to forest fires in the western Himalayas could shift or expand significantly in the coming decades. Image courtesy of J&K Forest Department.

Winter forest fires signal a shift in fire season

Farzana Nisar 1 Apr 2026
During the Raikas' long migrations in search for pastureland, they take breaks at areas with water resources. Image by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Shrinking commons, broken routes strain nomadic pastoralists

Aishwarya Mohanty 30 Mar 2026
Sambar deer in Maharashtra. The recent paper highlights an increase in herbivore populations, better nutrition from crop foraging, and a waning fear of humans as pull factors of crop damage by herbivores in the state. Image by Revati Sarnaik via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Fear may deter wild animals from damaging crops, study suggests

Arathi Menon 27 Mar 2026
A farmer sprays pesticide at a farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

West Asia conflict raises concerns over urea supply in India

Kundan Pandey 27 Mar 2026
The Aga Khan Bridge in Pune over the Mula-Mutha River, a key water source, highlights the growing need for better water management amid increasing demand and pollution. Image by Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Water costs in Pune may rise by 2050, study warns

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Mar 2026

The last Indian town before Bhutan is reeling under waste dumped on its river banks

Chandrani Sinha 25 Mar 2026
While indoor green infrastructure can improve indoor settings, it is not a replacement for ventilation. Researchers say that earlier research often showed what plants might do under simplified conditions, but not how they perform in real buildings. Representative image by Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Indoor plants may improve comfort indoors, but not replace ventilation

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Mar 2026
People queue up to refill cylinders during the LPG shortage in March 2026. Image by Nizil Shah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

LPG supply shock exposes fragility of India’s clean cooking strategy

Simrin Sirur 19 Mar 2026
A view of the Tarapur MIDC in Boisar. Image by Meena Menon.

Oleum leak puts spotlight on safety and pollution in a chemical hub

Meena Menon 16 Mar 2026

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