Priyanka Shankar

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Saplings of Semialta

The Semialata plant is a game changer for lac farming in Jharkhand amid climate and migration challenges

Vineeta Parmar 24 Feb 2025
marine litter beach vizag

Creating a blueprint for cleaner oceans

T. V. Padma 21 Feb 2025
bare-bellied hedgehog

Bare-bellied and barely seen, Madras hedgehog needs a headcount

Arathi Menon 19 Feb 2025

Leopards are adapting to central India’s urban jungle

Sneha Mahale 18 Feb 2025
coal mining dust jharsuguda odisha

Coal dust chokes plants and trees in mining areas

Simrin Sirur 12 Feb 2025
amreli flood 2015 climate

[Commentary] Climate lessons from the societies past

C.P. Rajendran 11 Feb 2025
teesta III Sikkim

Political stir follows expert panel’s approval to rebuild Teesta dam in Sikkim

Simrin Sirur 6 Feb 2025
digital climate technologies

[Commentary] Centring local communities in digital climate technologies

Tanya Kak, Maya Chandrasekaran 5 Feb 2025

Drones take wildlife conservation to new heights

Arathi Menon 3 Feb 2025

Mass death of olive ridley turtles raises urgent call for action

Laasya Shekhar 30 Jan 2025
prashad's gecko

[Commentary] The indomitable and highly resilient geckos

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Jan 2025

Reviving the culinary heritage of the Monpas

Barasha Das 21 Jan 2025

Miners trapped as a rat-hole coal mine floods

Nabarun Guha 20 Jan 2025

A regional hub in the Himalayas to reduce risks from climate-induced disasters

Nidhi Jamwal 14 Jan 2025

Women-led initiatives aim to bridge the gender gap in climate action

Aisiri Amin 10 Jan 2025

Relocating villages in core tiger areas based on science

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Jan 2025

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025
Ajith Babu, drone pilot at Fuselage Innovations operates 'FIA QD10' - a precision spraying agricultral drone at a paddy farm at Kerala Agro Machinery Corporation Limited in Kochi, Kerala, India Photo by Narayana Swamy Subbaraman/Mongabay

Back to the future: Emerging technologies in 2024

Priyanka Shankar 27 Dec 2024

Traditional foods return with demand for local, seasonal produce

Azera Parveen Rahman 24 Dec 2024

[Explainer] Why is the International Court of Justice deliberating global climate action?

Simrin Sirur 19 Dec 2024

Citizens’ movement against tree felling modifies a flyover plan

Nabarun Guha 17 Dec 2024

Tracking an elusive turtle with genetic clues from nature

Laasya Shekhar 12 Dec 2024

Lion-tailed macaques navigate twin hurdles

Arathi Menon 11 Dec 2024
A colony of painted storks constructs their homes on the Acacia nilotica (desi babool) tree.

[Commentary] Protecting the tree that branches out for migratory painted storks

Harsh Singhal, Manas Singh, Satya Prakash Mehra 10 Dec 2024

[Commentary] Holding financiers accountable for bankrolling big hydro projects

Amitanshu Verma 4 Dec 2024

[Interview] Jane Goodall meets Mongabay India

Mongabay India 3 Dec 2024

Growing food and greening cities

Hanan Zaffar, Jyoti Thakur 28 Nov 2024

[Interview] Ramachandra Guha on the pioneers of Indian environmentalism

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Nov 2024

Indigenous livestock breeds have evolved to brave harsh climates

Sneha Mahale 26 Nov 2024

Delivering a trillion dollars in climate finance is doable, experts say

Simrin Sirur 22 Nov 2024
Scientists place a portable climate observatory, across an open-water lead in the Arctic in December 2020. Image by Lianna Nixon-Alfred-Wegener Institut via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

[Commentary] The risk of a potential circulation change in the Atlantic adds to climate worries

C.P. Rajendran 21 Nov 2024

India’s major coal unions weigh in on the path to a just transition

Simrin Sirur 15 Nov 2024

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