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Former President Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Daripalli Ramaiah at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 30, 2017

Telangana green crusader Daripalli Ramaiah dies at 87 [Obituary]

Kundan Pandey 14 Apr 2025
Workers pushing cotton bales at Kolkata railway station. Cotton bales are a key raw material for the textile industry. Image by Jorge Royan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)"

Latest ESG reporting rules redefine key suppliers and customers of listed companies

Kundan Pandey 11 Apr 2025

Ignoring biodiversity could put businesses at risk [Commentary]

Sumit Arora 7 Apr 2025
Migratory birds at the DPS Flamingo lake that is half covered with algae. Image by Esha Lohia/Mongabay

Citizens continue a decade-long fight to conserve an urban lake

Esha Lohia 2 Apr 2025
A market in Mysuru, Karnataka. Several Indian cities are introducing amnesty schemes to encourage property owners to clear pending taxes. Image by Kundan Pandey for Mongabay.

Property tax revenue could help cities adapt to a hotter world

Kundan Pandey 28 Mar 2025
An electric vehicle charging station in Begumpet, Hyderabad. Image by iMahesh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Budget boosts EV battery manufacturing plans, but a big leap needed for success [Commentary]

Suresh Seshadri 19 Mar 2025
Manisha Oraon, co-founder of The Open Field, interacts with women at her restaurant. Besides serving local cuisine, her team is documenting Jharkhand’s tribal food traditions. Image courtesy of Manisha Oraon

Tribal entrepreneurs bring indigenous cuisine to the urban mainstream

Kundan Pandey 12 Mar 2025
Residents of Pulwama in Jharkhand say that while the Rajhara North coal mine’s reopening might offer temporary benefits, it risks repeating a cycle of displacement and environmental damage. Bindu Devi says that she will fight for the right compensation (R). The government has allocated mining blocks to Fairmine Carbons which has begun production (L). Images by Ashwini Kumar Shukla for Mongabay.

A coal mine reopens, sparking hope and fear

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 11 Mar 2025

The potential toxic fallout of herbicide use in solar parks

Gowthami Subramaniam 6 Mar 2025
Neela Hauz Biodiversity Park, a restored wetland near Sanjay Van, serves as a thriving habitat for migratory birds. Image by Nidhi Jamwal.

Creating urban biodiversity parks from degraded lands

Nidhi Jamwal 6 Mar 2025
Infopark in Kochi representative image urban climate resilience

A path to climate resilience through city-level research and planning

Divya Kilikar 4 Mar 2025
Traditional fishers on small craft prefer to finish work early before the sun gets too harsh. A crew lands their fibreglass boat at Thumba village on the city's fringes. Image by Max Martin.

Kerala’s early heat surge signals climate shift

Max Martin 25 Feb 2025

Public private partnerships build urban forests

Shweta Thakur Nanda 20 Feb 2025
City life in Jaipur. As of December 2024, around 41 cities have developed or are drafting City Climate Action Plans, as per a government statement. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0).

Fixing the gaps in city climate plans with a national framework

Kundan Pandey 11 Feb 2025
critical minerals

India approves mission to bridge critical mineral gap in energy transition

Esha Lohia 7 Feb 2025
Solar panels and internet dish on a guest house roof at Phuktal Gompa, Zanskar, Ladakh. Decentralised renewable energy received a boost with an 80% rise in PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana’s allocation. Image: Timothy A. Gonsalves via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Budget prioritises resilience and energy security, skips major green announcements

Kundan Pandey 4 Feb 2025
Workers offload harvested rice. Beyond emissions, agriculture faces challenges like employing a large workforce and ensuring food security. Image by G41rn8 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

High stakes but low investment in sustainable agriculture in India

Kundan Pandey 31 Jan 2025
Western Ghats wayanad landslides

Caught between exploitation and extremes, Western Ghats’ future hinges on local action

Max Martin 29 Jan 2025

These Goan villages want to be recognised for their natural resources

Simrin Sirur 15 Jan 2025
Claim filing process for the habitat rights in Mayurbhanj district. Image courtesy of Vasundhara (Shyam Sundar Sahoo)

[Explainer] What are habitat rights?

Shuchita Jha 13 Jan 2025

[Book review] A reality check on efforts to decentralise natural resource governance

Kundan Pandey 10 Jan 2025
A government survey reveals nearly a fifth of collected samples exceed permissible pollutant limits, including nitrates and significant quantities of radioactive uranium. Image by SuSanA Secretariat via Flickr (CC-BY-2.0).

Government report highlights groundwater contamination across India

Esha Lohia 8 Jan 2025
The latest forest survey reports a 1,446 sq. km. increase in forest and tree cover since 2021, with 156 sq. km. in forest cover and 1,289 sq. km. in tree cover. Image by Pooja Rathod via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Forest Survey reveals India’s shift towards plantations, a threat to natural ecosystems

Kundan Pandey 27 Dec 2024

The methane puzzle of ambition and action unfolds at COP29

Kundan Pandey 13 Dec 2024
Tandup Cherring scouting for snow leopards on the Langza Plateau, Spiti. Image courtesy of Munib Khanyari

Solar power looms large over the snow leopards of Spiti

Nikhil Sreekandan 9 Dec 2024
Activists protest at the COP29 venue, urging developed countries to acknowledge their role in the climate crisis. Image courtesy of COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency via flickr.

COP29 debate highlights rising tensions over unilateral trade measures in climate policy

Kundan Pandey 6 Dec 2024
Parties at the closing plenary of COP29 in Baku, where rules for the future carbon market were finalised. Image courtesy of COP29 Azerbaijan Presidency via flickr

COP29 seals Article 6 deal for carbon trading, but environmental concerns persist

Kundan Pandey 4 Dec 2024
A solar power plant in Gujarat. PV power generation depends on the installed PV capacity and the site's PV potential. Image by Citizenmj via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-3.0).

Rising pollution, temperatures to impact performance of solar panels, says study

Pallavi Ghosh 2 Dec 2024

UN climate summit starts in Azerbaijan under shadow of impending Trump presidency

Soumya Sarkar 11 Nov 2024
Varkala cliffs face rapid development, with restaurants, resorts, parking lots, and a helipad reshaping the landscape. Image: K S Sajinkumar

Local lifeline, nature’s timeline, Varkala cliffs threatened by climate and human activities

Max Martin 30 Oct 2024
Women workers making water hyacinth products in factory - ROPE International

Weeds of change

Shweta Thakur Nanda 21 Oct 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

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