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Sulphur hexafluoride gas circuit breakers in a switchyard. Photo by Dingy/Wikimedia Commons.

[Explainer] What is SF₆? Why should we be monitoring it?

Pranav Sinha 5 Sep 2023

[Explainer] Why mitigating methane emissions matters

Mahima Jain 31 Aug 2023
Vegetable market; Kuchaman, Rajasthan, India

Tackling food loss and waste for climate and food security

Arathi Menon 31 Aug 2023

Glare hazard from solar panels, a safety concern for the airports switching to clean energy

Ravleen Kaur 30 Aug 2023

Indian banks have no plans to step away from coal investments yet, new assessment finds

Simrin Sirur 25 Aug 2023
Image shows a man standing in a straw field behind a fire

Behind Punjab’s smoke screen, Madhya Pradesh’s stubble burning problem goes unnoticed

Shailesh Shrivastava 21 Aug 2023

Madhya Pradesh farmers burn the stubble from rabi harvest, to grow a third crop before kharif

Rakesh Kumar Malviya 16 Aug 2023

[Explainer] Living with microplastics, is not fantastic

Mahima Jain 16 Aug 2023

Ruza, a traditional water harvesting system for the water-scarce mountains

Barasha Das 11 Aug 2023

Gujarat’s indigenous Patanwadi wool and sheep, on a steady fall

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Aug 2023
Joyeeta Gupta speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Photo by World Economic Forum - Jakob Polacsek/ Flickr.

[Interview] Joyeeta Gupta: The Indian voice for environmental justice at global platforms

Arathi Menon 27 Jul 2023

Communication technologies for deep-sea fishers as cyclones intensify in the Arabian Sea

Max Martin, Sindhu Nepolean 24 Jul 2023

Lab-grown special mosquitoes can be the secret weapon to fight dengue

Mahima Jain 20 Jul 2023
Volunteers cleaning river Thamirabarani. Photo by Vasudevan Sridharan.

[Video] Restoring the perennial Thamirabarani river with people power

Vasudevan Sridharan 19 Jul 2023
Women with palmyra nursery bags. Photo by Balaji Vedharajan.

Palmyra leaf bags substitute plastic nursery bags to support sustainable mangrove restoration

M.T. Saju 18 Jul 2023

Kerala needs long-term plans, not quick fixes, for human-elephant conflict

Asha Prakash 14 Jul 2023

Bihar’s makhana and the wetlands they grow in

Pranav Kumar 12 Jul 2023

Your Environment This Week: Canal top solar, green hydrogen from seawater, foxtail orchids

Team Mongabay India 7 Jul 2023

Environmentalists raise concerns as work on J&K’s Tawi riverfront continues

Irshad Hussain, Mubashir Naik 7 Jul 2023
People collecting wood in Uttarakhand. Representative image. Photo by Ashutosh Rawat/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] A decade after relocation, the lives of Van Gujjars still lack stability and security

Akshay Chettri and Neema P. Broome 29 Jun 2023
Some farmers say that they burn the stubble to keep the fields ready for the next crop in a short period of time. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

Madhya Pradesh ranks second in India in stubble burning, farmers unaware of government schemes

Shailesh Shrivastava 28 Jun 2023

Plastic-rock hybrids found on the Andaman Islands

Vinaya Kurtkoti 27 Jun 2023
At the National Expo XIII (in 2009) that organised by the 'Central Calcutta Science & Cultural Organisation for Youth' at North 24 Parganas. Photo by Biswarup Ganguly/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Explainer] Why do we use jargon when talking about science?

Anusha Krishnan 26 Jun 2023

[Workshop] Environmental economics: Economic valuation of ecosystem services

23 Jun 2023
Marabou storks are on the verge of extinction in West Africa but in South Africa and East Africa their population has never been larger because they are using urban areas. Photo by Jonah Gula. 

A new study reveals critical gaps in stork research; calls for scrutiny of the IUCN Red List data

Vinaya Kurtkoti 22 Jun 2023

As temperatures increase, India’s solar sector feels the heat

Arathi Menon 21 Jun 2023

We didn’t start the fire? Speculations over cause of Goa forest fires continue; state plans recovery

Noopur Bhandiwad 16 Jun 2023

[Explainer] What are floodplains and how have they been managed in India?

Vinaya Kurtkoti 14 Jun 2023

Jungle cats adapt to life on a farm

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 13 Jun 2023
Joshimath residents near their damaged houses. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay.

Joshimath residents return to their “unsafe” homes, four months after the sinking crisis

Satyam Kumar 6 Jun 2023

The art and science of elephant whispering

Max Martin 2 Jun 2023
Bar headed geese at the Pangong lake, part of Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary in Ladakh. Photo by Samriti Paul/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists develop a toolkit to identify high conservation-value areas

Anusha Krishnan 1 Jun 2023

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