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Mongabay India in 2024: Reaching out beyond the echo chamber

Team Mongabay India 25 Dec 2024
A view of the micro-arboretum from atop the hillock within the boundary of the plot in Erode district. Image by T. Ramakrishnan.

[Commentary] From fallow to forest: Letting nature regenerate

T. Ramakrishnan 17 Oct 2024

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022
Tuberonotha strenua. Photo by Geetha Iyer.

Mantispids: secretive insects with lace for wings

Geetha Iyer 6 Apr 2022

Mahananda river survey records 190 dolphins, warns of fishing threats to Red List species

Seema Sharma 17 Feb 2022

Extreme weather events and agriculture: what are the impacts and what’s in store?

Aathira Perinchery 22 Nov 2021

Should tree plantations be counted toward reforestation goals?

Gianluca Cerullo 21 Sep 2021
A view of Thiruvannamalai, an ancient hill in southern India.

[Interview] Nicolas Salazar Sutil: placing trees and indigenous knowledge at the centre of future healing

Meena Menon 22 Mar 2021
Menstruators are switching to reusable cloth sanitary napkins to make menstruation comfortable.

[Explainer] What is sustainable menstruation and how can it help tackle menstrual waste?

Snigdha Nalini Oreya 19 Mar 2021
A dung beetle finds subsistence in the deserts of Rajasthan. Photo by Peter Davis / Flickr.

[Explainer] The beetles that roll dung and follow the stars

Vatsala Nongmeikpam 1 Mar 2021

Flash droughts set to increase in India, finds study

Deepa Padmanabhan 16 Feb 2021

Alcohol bottle waste: A transparent problem in Goa’s beaches

Pamela D'Mello 12 Feb 2021

About 43 million hectares of forest lost in 14 years

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2021
Marine debris entangled in branching coral in the waters of the Gulf of Mannar. Photo courtesy SDMRI.

Ghosts of the gulf: Marine debris a threat to corals in the Gulf of Mannar

Aathira Perinchery 18 Jan 2021

Almost Famous species: the wild side of 2020 from forest to backyard

Sandhya Sekar 1 Jan 2021

How people respond to predators in the Indian Himalaya

Aathira Perinchery 17 Dec 2020
Grasses provide fodder for the cattle and support livelihood. Photo by Hridayesh Joshi.

Your Environment This Week: People power and tradition to save wetlands, India’s grasslands

Team Mongabay 4 Dec 2020
Roridomyces phyllostachydis fruiting bodies. Photo by Steve Axford.

Your Environment This Week: Biden and Indo-US climate policy, markhor & Yamuna sand mining

Team Mongabay 20 Nov 2020

[Interview] Turning to science to find innovative solutions: plant biologist E. V. Soniya

Sandhya Sekar 20 Nov 2020
The Cochin forest cane turtle in the Vazhachal Forest Division. The species is listed as “Endangered” by the IUCN Red List. Photo by Sandeep Das.

Your Environment This Week: Bengaluru’s lakes and livelihoods, electric vehicles and sustainable gifting

Team Mongabay 13 Nov 2020
A single individual of the termite Odontotermes obesus. Photo by Nikhil More.

Your Environment This Week: Faith protects snakes, termite mound architecture, energy map for India

Team Mongabay 30 Oct 2020
Termites inside a termite mound. Photo by Nikhil More.

Architectural secrets of termite mounds

Anusha Krishnan 28 Oct 2020

Frog discovered in the Eastern Ghats also found in the Western Ghats, more than 1000 km away

Aathira Perinchery 27 Oct 2020
A fisherman on a boat with fishing nets near Diamond Harbor in Sundarbans.Photo by Namrata Acharya.

Your Environment This Week: Mining versus bustards, canals for mangroves and camel milk

Team Mongabay 23 Oct 2020

Camel milk inspires hope for herders

Manu Moudgil 21 Oct 2020

Your Environment This Week: Elongated tortoise, exotic tilapia and Rahul Ram on music & environment

Team Mongabay 16 Oct 2020
Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) made it to of the “100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species”.

[Commentary] Tilapia: How an invasive fish came to dominate our ecology, food and psyche

Aaron Savio Lobo 15 Oct 2020

New Aloe species discovered from a desert in northwestern India

Neha Jain 13 Oct 2020
A group of Khur in LRK with Prosopis julifera in the background and waste water released from the farmlands in the foreground. Photo by Abhijit Dutta

[Commentary] Isolated pockets of unique wildlife populations of Gujarat need immediate attention

Abhijit Dutta 12 Oct 2020

Your Environment This Week: Ancient underground fish, saving J&K’s wetlands, mica mining

Team Mongabay 9 Oct 2020

Bodh fish, the ‘shark of Bastar,’ threatened by a proposed hydropower project

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Oct 2020

A brand new family of bony fishes from south India

Aathira Perinchery 7 Oct 2020

News and Inspiration from Nature's Frontline.

P. Gowri Shankar with a king cobra in Agumbe
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