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A woman digs out the roots of the gondra, a river sedge, from Sindh's riverbed. Photo by Poorva Goel.

Finding gondra amid the floods

Poorva Goel 18 Apr 2023

Study looks at India’s rural work guarantee scheme through a climate lens

Kundan Pandey 14 Apr 2023

[Commentary] The underbelly of the Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill 2023

C. R. Bijoy 7 Apr 2023

Your Environment This Week: Collecting Rhododendrons, spotting a grumpy cat and detecting climatic spells in the Arctic!

Mongabay India 31 Mar 2023

Artisanal fishers of Rameswaram resist the polluting shrimp farms on the island

Priyanka Shankar 30 Mar 2023

[Interview] Conservationist MK Ranjitsinh Jhala on the need for a grassland policy in India

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 24 Mar 2023
An ibisbill at river Sindh. Photo from Iqram ul Haq.

Ibisbill, the poorly understood Himalayan waterbird faces threats, finds study

Hirra Azmat 24 Mar 2023
Image shows a woman sitting in the driver's seat of a jeep

Women take the wheel for safer tourism in Satpura Tiger Reserve

Prashant Kumar Dubey 21 Mar 2023

Natural farming methods help the ‘climate-smart’ villages of MP brave climate impacts

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Mar 2023

Community participation helps a Maharashtra village become flood-free after years

Hiren Kumar Bose 2 Mar 2023

[Interview] Ajay Kumar Rastogi on leading India’s first just transition task force

Manish Kumar 22 Feb 2023
Crops raided by wild boars in Kaziranga. Photo by Nabarun Guha.

Farmers in Kaziranga demand timely, sufficient compensation for the crop raids by wildlife

Nabarun Guha 17 Feb 2023

[Commentary] A safe passage for the jumbos to the islands on the Brahmaputra

Anupam Sarmah, Arjun Kamdar, David Smith, Hiten Kumar Baishya 14 Feb 2023

India gains global prominence in agrochemical production; questions remain on polluting nature of industries

Supriya Vohra 8 Feb 2023

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake hopping with Anoop Ambili

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 3 Feb 2023

Women take the lead in promoting nutrition-sensitive aquaculture in Odisha

Aishwarya Mohanty 3 Feb 2023
Image shows a shrub with yellow flowers

Warmer winters in the Kashmir Valley are leading to early flowering of the gul toor

Hirra Azmat 25 Jan 2023

[Commentary] Decentralised waste water treatment systems to improve water security

Somnath Pal, Charu Bhanot 23 Jan 2023
People carrying firewood. Photo by by Vinayaraj/Wikimedia Commons.

[Workshop] Environmental economics for journalists

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2023

[Podcast] Imprints: Sifting through microfossils with Rajani Panchang

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 20 Jan 2023
A fisherwoman pulling up her Chinese net using the traditional Khu-il Chingba method in front of a homestay. Photo by Victor Ningthoujam.

[Editorial] Five years of Mongabay-India

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Jan 2023
Painted storks in Kazhuveli. Photo by Bupesh Gupta.

[Commentary] Tamil Nadu needs an innovative wetland conservation strategy starting with Kazhuveli

Kannan Vaithianathan 12 Jan 2023
Loco Pilots allege negligence on implementation of safety measures around important elephant corridors. Photo from Northeast Frontier Railway.

Assam loco pilots on the need for effective communication to prevent elephant-rail collision

Barasha Das 9 Jan 2023

Imprints: Digging up bones with Advait Jukar

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 6 Jan 2023
Wet fields and destroyed fields post heavy rainfalls. Photo by Alexy Thiyam.

Manipur farmers blame institutional failures for low yield and demand compensation

Donald Takhell 6 Jan 2023

What’s for lunch? Elephants are picky eaters finds study in northern West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 3 Jan 2023

Editor’s review 2022: A warmer Arabian Sea, energy transition and a search for economic value

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 24 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Finding molluscs with Devapriya Chattopadhyay

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 23 Dec 2022

In India’s ambitious ethanol plan, sugarcane farmers feel they’ve got the short end of the stick

Manish Kumar 22 Dec 2022
Sandra Diaz, Argentine ecologist and co-chair of the IPBES Global Assessment, says that the indirect drivers of change such as the way we consume, eat, use energy, trade, and the ideas we have of what is a fulfilling life, impact nature. Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation)/Wikimedia Commons.

[Interview] IPBES scientist Sandra Diaz on the need for bold targets to tackle biodiversity loss

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2022

Grazing and invasive species impact food availability for wild herbivores in MM Hills, finds study

Nobin Raja M. 12 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022

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