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Making sense of rainfall changes in Karnataka’s coffee estates through old records

Arathi Menon 1 Dec 2022
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Tinkering with saffron’s genetic makeup to develop climate resilience

Saniya Zahoor 23 Nov 2022

Tarballs dot India’s west coast annually, indicating continued oil spills, ship fuel discharge

Manjula Nair 21 Nov 2022
A woman returns from collecting the wood of the dead mangroves from the forest. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/ Mongabay.

Lack of resources slow embankment construction in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 11 Nov 2022

Models spotlight India’s clean energy transition pathways

Sahana Ghosh 11 Nov 2022
Sunil Patil mixes cattle feed. Heat stress has resulted in low milk production. Patil worries about the rise in rates of cattle feed. Photo by Abhijeet Gurjar/Mongabay.

Heat stress impacts milk production in Maharashtra’s dairy cattle

Abhijeet Gurjar 10 Nov 2022

Large grass-munching herbivores can stabilise soil carbon

T. V. Padma 8 Nov 2022

New approach of Indian monsoon estimation to account for rainfall variations

Archita Bhatta 3 Nov 2022

Rajasthan is getting wetter and it’s not good news for the desert ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Oct 2022

Longwood Shola forest is a water source for villages in the Nilgiris, maintains biodiversity

Gretta 14 Oct 2022

Soaring temperatures, black carbon impact glaciers in Drass region of Ladakh

Hirra Azmat 29 Sep 2022
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How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Sep 2022

All eyes on the next chapter: India prepares to host cheetahs after 70 years

Manish Chandra Mishra 16 Sep 2022
A thermal power plant in Haryana. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate action, pollution control needed to keep sulphur dioxide in check

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2022
The outlet of Pal Bagh Nag. The water traverses through the lawns of many houses situated down the lane, where people also come to wash their clothes. Photo by Amir Bin Rafi.

The potential of Kashmir’s springs for climate resilience

Amir Bin Rafi 12 Sep 2022
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Reconstructing 90-year-long rainfall history in northeast India using tea garden records

Sahana Ghosh 7 Sep 2022
The Indian Sundarbans in West Bengal. Mangrove saplings planted this year, alongside dead mangrove plants, at Mousuni Island. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/Mongabay.

The reality of saving young mangroves in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 6 Sep 2022
A woman doing farming in Ghoshal, a village in Lahaul valley. Photo by Anupama Shashni, Panjab University.

Farming becomes tough in Himachal’s cold desert with changing climate and crop pattern

Vivek Gupta 1 Sep 2022

Manipur landslide sparks ecological debate

Kasturi Das 26 Aug 2022

In Odisha’s Mangalajodi wetland, youth strive to build a healthier ecosystem and generate livelihoods

Tazeen Qureshy 26 Aug 2022

Unpacking the presence of microplastics in the Bay of Bengal

Sahana Ghosh 25 Aug 2022
People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022
A destructed belt of mangrove plants in the erosion prone coast of Pentha in the Kendrapara district of Odisha. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

Climate change could impact India’s renewable energy potential over the next 50 years

Manish Kumar 19 Aug 2022
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Dumped plastic containers lead to mosquito abundance on the Lakshadweep islands

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2022

[Commentary] Scope for more nuanced reporting by media on the Brahmaputra river basin

Sumit Vij 9 Aug 2022
Sharavathi river bordered by forests on both sides. Photo by Sarangib/Pixabay.

Karnataka sets green goals but denotifies two-thirds of its forest land in plot twist

Arathi Menon 28 Jul 2022

Saffron, biodiversity and glaciers: Kashmir’s women scientists lead climate action

Hirra Azmat 26 Jul 2022
Avicennia marina, more commonly known as grey mangroves or white mangroves. Photo by Dinesh Valke/ Wikimedia Commons.

Successful model of development in tandem with mangrove restoration

T. V. Padma 21 Jul 2022

Concerns over increased whale shark stranding along Andhra Pradesh’s coast

Almaas Masood 15 Jul 2022
The lack of data on the reasons behind the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean is a research gap that needs immediate attention, as per experts.

Understanding cyclone behaviour in a changing climate

Sahana Ghosh 11 Jul 2022
Protests over dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh have been observed in the Siang River belt. However, most protests against big dams have weaken.

Dams, art and protest in Arunachal Pradesh

Ranju Dodum 4 Jul 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

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