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Hydropower project nudges a tribal community out of their land in Himachal Pradesh

Kapil Kajal 3 Mar 2022
Relief work at the Dadam mining zone in January 2022. Photo by Sat Singh.

The ignorance of the Haryana government has cost the Aravallis dearly

Kapil Kajal 24 Feb 2022

Pavagada solar park busts notions of renewable energy as inherently good

Arathi Menon 15 Feb 2022
Men carry baskets of tomatoes in a field adjacent to the solar park in Pavagada, Karnataka. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Mongabay.

Given land for power, Pavagada residents now powerless

Arathi Menon 14 Feb 2022

Environment factors push people out of their homes on India’s east coast, leaving behind ‘ghost villages’

Manish Kumar 11 Feb 2022

Demanding PESA rights, Jharkhand’s tribal people plan to boycott panchayat polls

Md Asghar Khan 7 Feb 2022
Fragmentation of forests in Southern India due to plantations. The latest government forest report classifies plantations as forests

[Commentary] Green language of the Union Budget may result in net loss for the environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 4 Feb 2022

In Odisha’s first solar village, maintenance issues plague the mini solar plant

Manish Kumar 4 Feb 2022
Eucalyptus plantations (left) adjoining tea plantations (right) dotted with silver oak trees in the Anamalai hills, Western Ghats, India. Photo by T.R. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia Commons.

[Analysis] Indian forests around the size of Nagaland, thinned down in two years

Prudhviraj Rupavath 27 Jan 2022

Clean energy startups innovate on products to aid farmers, rural areas

Manish Kumar 20 Jan 2022
Mining machinery at a Goa mine brought to a halt by Supreme Court of India’s February 2018 judgment. Photo by Meera Mohanty/Mongabay.

Mining on the shifty sands of Goan politics

Meera Mohanty 20 Jan 2022
Banner image: The PPSP dams located amidst densely forested hills. Photo by Aniket Bhattacharya.

Purulia pumped storage project shows why pumped hydropower may not be clean

Aritra Bhattacharya 11 Jan 2022

Goa wants to restart mining. What does Goa’s youth want?

Supriya Vohra 10 Dec 2021
In the coal mining areas, thousands depend on the coal ecosystem directly or indirectly for their livelihood. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary/Mongabay.

India’s coal transition likely to be a “messy and complicated exercise”

Mayank Aggarwal 8 Dec 2021

From pollution to power, what stops paddy straw from becoming the fuel of choice

Manu Moudgil 7 Dec 2021

[Photos] In anticipation of India’s largest coal mining project

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 2 Dec 2021
The contaminated water from the wells. Photo by special arrangement.

In a Himachal village, people accuse a waste management plant for contaminating water

Kapil Kajal 1 Dec 2021
Grid-connected rooftop solar plant at Ramakrishna Mission Ashram in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Photo by Muskaan Kapoor.

Solar power could emerge as a dependable energy alternative for Uttarakhand

Muskaan Kapoor 18 Nov 2021

Solar power helps farmers irrigate fields in water-scarce Bastar

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 15 Nov 2021

Glasgow summit delivers discounted dreams, but action and money missing

Soumya Sarkar 15 Nov 2021

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