Priyanka Shankar

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Priyanka Shankar is Assistant Production Editor at Mongabay India.

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What is non-economic loss and damage? [Explainer]

Priyanka Shankar 20 Oct 2025

Sandesh Kadur. Image ©Robin Darius Conz/Felis Images.

Sandesh Kadur on documenting the shared wilderness in the Nilgiris [Interview]

Priyanka Shankar 8 Aug 2025

A data server room in Switzerland. Representative image by Florian Hirzinger via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Data centres face physical climate risks, report warns

Priyanka Shankar 28 Jul 2025

Taira Malaney, director of the film Turtle Walker. Image by Krish Makhija.

How one researcher walked thousands of miles along India’s shores to conserve sea turtles

Priyanka Shankar 7 Mar 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

Varaha-3 being deployed in the Andaman Sea for an exploratory mining trial. Image from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT).

India advances with deep-sea mining technology

Priyanka Shankar 18 Nov 2024

At a football match in Ladakh's Climate Cup 2024. Image by Phachuks.

A football tournament kicks off conversations about sports and climate

Priyanka Shankar, Saumitra Shinde 14 Oct 2024

GI tags protect Indian tradition amid impacts of climate change, biodiversity loss

Priyanka Shankar 6 Jun 2024

Solar dehydrators from S4S Technologies which helps increase the shelf life of agricultural produce. Photo by Saumya Khandelwal/S4s Technologies.

Technologies to decrease food loss and increase farmer incomes

Priyanka Shankar 26 Apr 2024

Farming with AI and drones to increase yields, manage resources and reduce pests

Priyanka Shankar 19 Apr 2024

Researcher scholars from the University of Hyderabad measure the plant height of foxtail millet. Photo from the Repository of Tomato Genomics Resources, UoH.

Developing cutting-edge technology for climate-sensitive agriculture

Priyanka Shankar 11 Apr 2024

[Interview] Richie Mehta on addressing the elephant in the room in ‘Poacher’

Priyanka Shankar 12 Mar 2024

Artisanal fishers of Rameswaram resist the polluting shrimp farms on the island

Priyanka Shankar 30 Mar 2023

[Interview] Purnima Jalihal on the evolution and future of ocean energy systems in India

Sahana Ghosh, Priyanka Shankar 24 Feb 2023

Deep-sea mining efforts gear up to meet clean energy demands amid concerns

Priyanka Shankar 26 Oct 2022

Deshbandhu Park in Kolkata, West Bengal, post cyclone Amphan. Photo by Indrajit Das/Wikimedia Commons.

Urgency brews to foreground loss and damage at COP27

Priyanka Shankar 1 Sep 2022

A private wind farm in Radhapuram, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Narayana Swamy Subbraman/Mongabay.

Repowering Tamil Nadu’s aging wind farms to meet clean energy targets

Priyanka Shankar 13 May 2022

Conserving biodiversity as wind farms expand in Tamil Nadu

Priyanka Shankar 29 Apr 2022

The wind farm paradox in southern Tamil Nadu

Priyanka Shankar 15 Apr 2022

Potential offshore wind project in the Gulf of Mannar leaves fishers anxious

Priyanka Shankar 23 Mar 2022

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A stretch of Mumbai's coastal road being constructed near the Haji Ali Durgah in 2024. Representative image by Qiw007 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).