Aditi Tandon

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Aditi Tandon is the Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India.

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A Malabar pied hornbill, one among the threatened fauna one can spot in Silent Valley National Park. Image by N A Nazeer via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5).

The movement that rewrote India’s environmental narrative [Commentary]

C. J. Punnathara 21 Mar 2025
An aerial view of the coast of Kollam, Kerala, whose three mineral blocks are estimated to hold 302 million tonnes of construction sand in reserves, according to tender documents. Image by Arunvrparavur via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Auction for offshore mineral blocks met with resistance and delays

Simrin Sirur 20 Mar 2025

India’s central bank recommends pooling viable projects to attract climate finance

Kundan Pandey 20 Mar 2025

How shifting weather patterns threaten a sweet legacy

Rushikesh More, Apsara Aga 18 Mar 2025
Various specimens of insects on display at the Insect Biosystematics and Conservation Lab. Image by Abhishek N. Chinnappa.

A study centre for little things that run the world

Arathi Menon 18 Mar 2025
A doctor in a hospital in West Bengal assesses the X-ray of a tuberculosis patient. Image by ILO Asia-Pacific via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Increasing pointers to climate change indirectly impacting tuberculosis rise

T. V. Padma 17 Mar 2025
Meliodosis infections in Odisha tend to be highest during heavy rainfall, high humidity, high cloud cover, and low sunlight conditions. In Odisha, these conditions prevail for half the year. Image by Chinmayee Mishra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Climate-based mapping of a rare but emerging disease in Odisha

Anusha Krishnan 13 Mar 2025
A high altitude lake at Bum La pass in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Saptaparnipal.32 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Glaciers in Eastern Himalayas see marked retreat

Simrin Sirur 11 Mar 2025

An ode to joy: remembering Ajith Kumar [Obituary]

Divya Karnad 10 Mar 2025
A cave in South Garo Hills.

A prehistoric whale fossil stolen from a cave turns attention to fossil trade

Nabarun Guha 5 Mar 2025
improved cooking stove in a Lepcha house

Bridging tradition and conservation with improved cooking stoves in Lepcha homes [Commentary]

Abishek Pradhan 3 Mar 2025
Small-scale gillnet fishers in Goa. Image by Trisha Gupta.

Understanding India’s shark supply chains to make them sustainable

Neha Jain 3 Mar 2025
Protecting core areas ensures tiger populations remain at sustainable levels. Photo Credit David V Raju via Wikimedia Commons

The rise, fall, and return of India’s tigers

Sneha Mahale 27 Feb 2025
Coenobitidae hermit crabs are largely beach dwellers that enter the sea only to breed.

Tiny creatures that lug their homes [Commentary]

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 27 Feb 2025
Controlled burning in Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh

Wildfires and the forgotten science of community forest management [Commentary]

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Pranab R. Choudhury 25 Feb 2025
Campylobacter jejuni food-borne pathogens

Food-borne bugs and their links with climate change come into focus

T. V. Padma 24 Feb 2025
An indigenous Santhal woman engaged in daily work in West Bengal. While climate finance prioritises mitigation, adaptation—crucial for vulnerable communities—remains underfunded. Image by Soumyabrata Roy via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

What is climate finance? [Explainer]

Kundan Pandey 21 Feb 2025

In the fare-play business, Namma Metro has misplaced its priorities

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Feb 2025

How data deficiency is hindering hydro-diplomacy between China and India [Commentary]

Nilanjan Ghosh, Sayanangshu Modak 17 Feb 2025
Agriculture is one of six sectors the Government of India is working on for its climate finance taxonomy, says the 2025 budget document. Image by Digvijaysjanoti via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Taxonomy for climate finance remains the missing link in India’s green transition

Kundan Pandey 14 Feb 2025

Pune’s Zika and GBS outbreaks call for better use of surveillance, data

Disha Shetty 13 Feb 2025
Nagaland activist Seno Tsuhah

[Interview] How a Nagaland activist is reviving traditional practices to combat climate change

Angana Chakrabarti 10 Feb 2025
youth engaging in invasive alien plants removal

[Explainer] How are invasive alien plants removed?

Divya Kilikar 10 Feb 2025

Reviving an encroached bird haven

Sneha Mahale 6 Feb 2025
slender loris dindigul kalyan varma

Illegal mining threatens a slender loris sanctuary

George Rajasekaran 6 Feb 2025

[Interview] Climate scientist Steven Hamburg on measuring, rather than estimating, methane from space

Kartik Chandramouli 5 Feb 2025
Nicobar megapode, one of the many species affected by nicobar development

With Rs. 800 million sanctioned, committees begin monitoring Great Nicobar development project

Simrin Sirur 4 Feb 2025

[Commentary] India needs a dedicated national wetland inventory programme

Ritesh Kumar 31 Jan 2025
mosquito Aedes aegypti dengue mortality

Dengue mortality projected to rise in a warming world

Simrin Sirur 28 Jan 2025
rice farmer paddy fields

Carbon farming projects not always inclusive and equitable, says new study

Simrin Sirur 23 Jan 2025

[Explainer] What is blue carbon?

Phalguni Ranjan 20 Jan 2025

[Explainer] How did India phase out ozone-depleting substances and what lies ahead?

Kundan Pandey 17 Jan 2025

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