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The climate drivers behind southwest India’s intensifying heat waves

Max Martin 3 Sep 2024

It’s been 5 years of the National Clean Air Programme. This is why it hasn’t worked.

Simrin Sirur 2 Sep 2024

[Interview] On using comics to unpack agricultural concepts

Arti Das 29 Aug 2024
The Russell’s viper rescued by Saurav Borkataki on 2 August 2024 from the Bihaguri area of Sonitpur district. Image by Saurav Borkataki.

Misinformation about Russell’s viper stokes incidents of snake killing in Assam

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 28 Aug 2024

Ruling on mining taxation empowers states, worries industry

Vishal Kumar Jain 21 Aug 2024

Conservation drones need to overcome some takeoff troubles

Laasya Shekhar 19 Aug 2024

Fading ties with Mumbai’s mudskippers

Shiva Thorat 15 Aug 2024
Farmer distributes fertiliser in the farm. Image by EqualStock IN via Pexels (CC).

[Commentary] Challenges in scaling natural farming with bio-input resource centres

Joshua Lobo and M. Manjula 15 Aug 2024

Mugger crocodiles may be physiologically stressed in disturbed habitats

Sneha Mahale 12 Aug 2024
Participants of a herping tour photographing a mugger crocodile in Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary, Karnataka, in June, 2024. Photo credit: Yatin Kalki

Your Environment This Week: biologist influencers, Kashmir’s wild edibles, climate change affects yak breeding

Team Mongabay India 9 Aug 2024
Banner image: Common morel. Image by Joost J Bakker via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Wild edible plants enhance food security and climate resilience in Kashmir, finds study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 8 Aug 2024

Uttarakhand forests burn while fire guards face outstanding salaries and lack of resources

Megha Prakash 5 Aug 2024

The road to road resilience is paved with mindful construction and design say experts

Simrin Sirur 1 Aug 2024

Wild Frequencies: Us and Them

Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli 1 Aug 2024

[Book Review] Didi Contractor’s journey through ecologically-sensitive architecture

Nandita Jayaraj 30 Jul 2024
Seema Lokhandwala records elephant calls. Image by Vijay Bedi.

Wild Frequencies: Know Them

Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli 25 Jul 2024

Wild Frequencies: Find Them

Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli 18 Jul 2024

A Ladakhi podcast spurs conversations about wildlife and conservation

Kasturi Das 17 Jul 2024

[Video] Nomadic Changpas who depend on Pashmina wool, struggle amid a changing climate

Shailesh Shrivastava 16 Jul 2024

[Explainer] How does habitat fragmentation impact India’s biodiversity hotspots?

Divya Kilikar 15 Jul 2024

Massive fish kill in Periyar river attributed to industrial pollution

Vishnuprasad K P 11 Jul 2024

With intense and recurring heat waves, AC market grows

Vishal Kumar Jain 5 Jul 2024
A roadside coconut stall in Palakkad, Kerala. Image by Effulgence108 via Wikimedia Commons (CC0 1.0).

High temperatures lead to decline in coconut production, spiked prices

Rashi Goel 4 Jul 2024

Tamil Nadu’s grazing ban threatens rights, livelihoods of forest dwellers

George Rajasekaran 28 Jun 2024

[Commentary] Unified action needed to tackle extreme heat and air pollution

Annanya Mahajan, Tamanna Dalal 24 Jun 2024

Kolkata’s overlooked air pollution crisis

Niladry Sarkar 12 Jun 2024
Manjubai extracts seeds from the musk melon fruit for further processing Image by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Rising above the waters with musk melon

Aishwarya Mohanty 4 Jun 2024
A potato farmer in India. Image by Vishahsh521 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0 Deed).

[Commentary] Celebrating potato, the global staple

Siddhartha Krishnan 30 May 2024

Population rise a bittersweet win for greater adjutant storks, as poison enters their diet

Mohd Imran Khan 24 May 2024

In forested villages powered by solar, kitchen gardens aid in nutrition

Aishwarya Mohanty 23 May 2024
Becquartina bicolor sitting on a leaf in Balpakram National Park in South Garo Hills in Meghalaya. This was the first individual of the species sighted by Sarkar in 2017. The cicada’s wings were damaged when it was caught by a bat. Image by Vivek Sarkar.

Researchers describe a new cicada species, bicolor butterfly, from Meghalaya

Vandana K. 16 May 2024
One of the four saltwater crocodiles in Bangladesh with a newly installed satellite transmitter, released into the wild. Image by Md Mofizur Rahaman Chowdury.

Tagging crocodiles with satellite transmitters

Rafiqul Islam 14 May 2024

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