Aditi Tandon

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Aditi Tandon is the Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India.

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The Indian Ocean along the Sri Lankan coastline. Image by Sarmat Batagov via Pexels.

Why do changes in the Indian Ocean matter? [Explainer]

Bharti Dharapuram 20 Aug 2026

India’s only singing, swinging ape

Team Mongabay-India 19 Aug 2026
Farmers release crabs into a paddy field in Borborua block, Dibrugarh district. Image by Anirban Roy.

Harvesting rice and crabs on one field offers farmers a climate-resilient alternative

Azera Parveen Rahman 18 Aug 2026
A mountain of waste generated from coal mining stands in the Kathara area of Bokaro district, Jharkhand. Image by Kundan Pandey/Mongabay.

The mine closes but the transition is far from over

Kundan Pandey 17 Aug 2026

Free-ranging dogs, changing livelihoods reshape an agro-pastoral landscape

Phalguni Ranjan 13 Aug 2026

Assam floods expose a crisis beyond heavy rain

Nabarun Guha 11 Aug 2026
Labourers work at a metro line project in Aarey colony, amid protests against felling of trees in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Supreme court upholds centre’s power to notify post-facto clearance

Kundan Pandey 7 Aug 2026
A pair of bar-headed geese in flight. They migrate from Central Asia to India in large flocks during the winter. Image by Hari K. Patibanda via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

New clues into how animals evolved an internal compass to navigate Earth

Nupur Fangaria 7 Aug 2026
Fishers at work in Vembanad Lake, Kerala. Image courtesy of India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

A fertile landscape at the crossroads of ecology and development [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 3 Aug 2026
Lateral view of a specimen of Pseudecheneis likimroensis. Image courtesy of Zoological Survey of India.

A newly-described fish sheds light on a biodiversity blind spot

Monish Upadhyay 31 Jul 2026

Study warns of growing landslide threat

Arathi Menon 30 Jul 2026

The wild cat with a unique stripe pattern

Team Mongabay-India 29 Jul 2026
Residential settlements near Howrah railway station in West Bengal. Image by Ravi Dwivedi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India has a railway noise problem but its health impacts are poorly understood

Rohan Singh 29 Jul 2026
A new trapdoor spider species, Tigidia singhal, from the Deccan Plateau. Image by Prasad Bolde.

New-to-science spider highlights importance of open natural ecosystems

Ananya Singh 28 Jul 2026
A yellow-throated fulvetta, a common species at middle elevations in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary. This bird forms large flocks that co-operatively glean insects off shrubbery. Because leaf-dwelling insects remain seasonally stable, leaf-gleaners like the fulvetta are largely non-migratory. Image by Tarun Menon.

Insects may be guiding seasonal bird movements in the eastern Himalayas, study finds

Manjeera Gowravaram 28 Jul 2026
A rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus). Image by Davidvraju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Roads a risk to the world’s smallest wild cat

Nikhil Sreekandan 27 Jul 2026
A security personal watches as a worker seals the lid of a tanker filled with ethanol at a factory, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Supporting infrastructure is the missing link in India’s ethanol push

Manish Chandra Mishra 24 Jul 2026
A buyer bargains with a sugarcane vendor. Representative image. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Rising sugarcane yields coexist with climate, water risks in semi-arid India

Sneha Mahale 23 Jul 2026
Antaram idukki, discovered in Kerala’s Idukki district. Image by Md. Jafer Palot.

A lone moth leads the discovery of a new genus

Arathi Menon 22 Jul 2026
A blackbuck at the Bagepalli plantation. Image courtesy of ATREE.

Cities need tailored restoration, not mass tree planting

Arathi Menon 17 Jul 2026
A cicada in Kodagu, Karnataka. Image by Ljain19 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The insect that makes forests sing

Team Mongabay-India 15 Jul 2026
The World Cup cicada (Chremistica ribhoi). Image by Nabarun Guha.

The insect that syncs up with the football World Cup

Nabarun Guha 14 Jul 2026
An elderly woman suffering from a heat-related ailment is brought to an overcrowded government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh in 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s heat response is missing public health logic [Commentary]

Purvi Patel 13 Jul 2026
Manjara Dam in Marathwada region, Maharashtra, dries up completely during a drought in 2016. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

As El Niño develops, India turns to coal to offset lower hydropower

Kundan Pandey 10 Jul 2026
A cement naala baandh in Kiraksal constructed in 2017. Image by Vinaya Kurtkoti.

Watershed management improves livelihoods in drought-prone village

Vinaya Kurtkoti 9 Jul 2026

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

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