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At COP28 in Dubai, developed party groups, in particular, have called for higher emissions reduction targets from all parties as temperatures inch closer to the Paris Agreement’s limits. Photo by Simrin Sirur/Mongabay

Developed countries need to deepen emissions cuts to meet global climate goals, say experts

Simrin Sirur 10 Dec 2023
Advocacy groups calling for human rights action for Climate Justice during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai on December 3. Photo by COP28/Walaa Alshaer.

Conflict, peace and Palestine make an impression at COP28

Simrin Sirur 5 Dec 2023
Workers drying and husking rice at a mill outside Kanchipuram.

Dubai climate summit puts food on high table for first time, India stays away

Soumya Sarkar 4 Dec 2023

COP28 launches loss and damage fund, but pledges are a drop in the ocean

Simrin Sirur 1 Dec 2023
Horseshoe crab in Sundarbans. The species also referred to as the living fossils have survived over 400 million years. Photo by David Raju/Wikimedia Commons

Horseshoe crab decline sparks urgent conservation plea

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Nov 2023

[Analysis] Indian aviation’s turbulent path to sustainability

Chirag Dhara, Litisha Bagadia, Tanvi Kadakol 7 Nov 2023
A seller picking Rugra in a Mandi in Ranchi.

Production of rugra, a nutritious mushroom found in Jharkhand, impacted by weather changes

Vishal Kumar Jain 2 Nov 2023

[Commentary] The Global Biofuels Alliance is an aspiration that needs careful direction

Purva Jain 1 Nov 2023
Dharavi settlement near Mahim Junction in Mumbai, India

Poor governance burdens Indian cities, finds survey

Kundan Pandey 26 Oct 2023
Concrete structures occupy cropland. Rapid urbanisation, development projects, and population growth have also played significant roles in soil degradation.

[Commentary] Soil degradation in India spells doom for millions

Ramesh Menon 25 Oct 2023

Traditional salt workers contribute to wild ass conservation and regain access to Little Rann of Kutch

Ravleen Kaur 19 Oct 2023
Barnacles on a plastic bottle found on the beach. Photo by Gunasekaran Kannan

Marine debris transporting invasive species along the southeastern coast

Max Martin 11 Oct 2023
A truck trying to cross the river in Himachal Pradesh.

Monsoon left widespread destruction and uneasy questions in Himachal

Vivek Gupta 26 Sep 2023

Excavating farmlands for highways

Sat Singh 21 Sep 2023

Punjab implements policy to prioritise pedestrians

Vivek Gupta 19 Sep 2023
Bichhri residents fill water from the tanker. Photo by Shiva Singh.

A village contaminated by industrial waste has been waiting for justice for over three decades

Sneha Richhariya, Tej Prakash Bhardwaj 15 Sep 2023
Image shows windmills with a mountain in the background

Odanthurai’s windmill experiment, a pioneering move that had its wind knocked out

Gowthami Subramaniam 11 Aug 2023

Residents near one of India’s largest uranium mines suspect contamination affecting their fields and health

Meena Menon 10 Aug 2023

Promised rehabilitation eludes residents living near one of India’s earliest coal mines

Geetika Mishra 4 Aug 2023
Harijan colony of Khatoli in Nangal Chaudhary of Mahendergarh district, is the worst affected due to pollution raised by stone crushers.

Residents in Haryana point to stone crushing units for their respiratory troubles and drop in crop yield

Sat Singh 2 Aug 2023

[Commentary] Green credits can be an incentive for cities to take climate action based on local need

Kshitij Singh 26 Jul 2023
Om Prakash from Indali village in Rajasthan had installed a solar pump for irrigation under the PM Kusum scheme. The solar pump stopped working in 2015. Photo by Parul Kulshrestha/Mongabay.

Depleting groundwater makes it difficult for Rajasthan farmers to use solar pumps

Parul Kulshrestha 25 Jul 2023

What happened to Tamil Nadu’s model renewable energy village?

Gowthami Subramaniam 21 Jul 2023
Image shows a man walking in a rice field with a windmill in the background

New report estimates district-wise crop residue potential for bioenergy production

Pranav Sinha 17 Jul 2023
The first wind power project was planned to be developed at the site in the Bidda village of Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Photo arranged by Tauseef Ahmed.

A wind project has been waiting to power up for a decade in Jammu and Kashmir

Tauseef Ahmad 12 Jul 2023

Green credit scheme encourages ‘environment-friendly’ behaviour, but needs strong regulation to work

Simrin Sirur 11 Jul 2023

Inside Goa and Karnataka’s conflict on Mhadei river water

Meera Mohanty 7 Jul 2023
An assembled three-cell stack alkaline seawater electrolyser. Hydrogen and oxygen evolution from the outlet can be seen in the inverted cylinders. Photo from IIT Madras.

IIT Madras scientists develop prototype to use seawater for green hydrogen production

Pranav Sinha 6 Jul 2023

Solar canals prove to be good for the environment but not for business

Ravleen Kaur 4 Jul 2023

Solar pumps offer financial relief to West Bengal farmers, but growth is slow

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 30 Jun 2023
Nordsee One is an offshore wind farm in the German part of the North Sea. India is also planning to bid out 37 gigawatts (GW) equivalent of offshore wind projects by 2029-30. Photo by Capmat007/Wikimedia commons

Miles to sail to harness offshore wind

Pranav Sinha 29 Jun 2023

[Commentary] Living off the grid in India’s southernmost district

Geetha Iyer 21 Jun 2023

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