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Journalists Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj on the set of Walking Against the Heat, a film produced as part of the Video Reporting Opportunity by All Living Things Environment Film Festival and Mongabay-India. Image courtesy of Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj.

Taking environmental storytelling beyond the screen in 2025

Sandhya Sekar 26 Dec 2025

Concerted efforts save an Indigenous donkey from oblivion

Azera Parveen Rahman 25 Dec 2025
A woman carries water collected from a public tap during the summer on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Climate action cooled as heat surged in 2025 [Editor’s Review]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 25 Dec 2025
Community tourism inside Manas National Park, Assam. India’s long-standing forest decentralisation framework, built around Joint Forest Management and Community Forest Resource Rights committees, provides existing institutional infrastructure. Image by Ishan Kukreti.

Forest finance and the challenges money cannot fix [Commentary]

Ishan Kukreti 24 Dec 2025
The Red Fort. Image by Amit Rawat via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Air pollution is the silent enemy of Indian monuments

Shilpa Raina 23 Dec 2025

Climate change shaped primate populations in northeast India

Anusha Krishnan 23 Dec 2025
Fish vendors at a market in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Image by Rajesh Pamnani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

India’s fisheries budget misses the ocean for the fish [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 22 Dec 2025
A man carrying a child covers their heads with a cloth to protect themselves from the heat in Jammu. (AP Photo/ Channi Anand)

Heat stress is intensifying across Indian states, shows data [Analysis]

Poonguzhali R.P., Brinda Viswanathan, K.S. Kavi Kumar 22 Dec 2025
A farmer gathers freshly harvested Mushk Budji, a rice variety that nearly disappeared due to blast disease before recent revival efforts by SKUAST-Kashmir. Image by Hirra Azmat.

Saving a traditional grain through modern plant breeding

Hirra Azmat 19 Dec 2025

Tiger gut microbes reflect human pressure in India’s wildlife reserves, study finds

Manjeera Gowravaram 19 Dec 2025
A sloth bear with her cubs in Mahrashtra. Representative image by Rohit Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Proposed sloth bear reserve caught between courts and a thermal power project

Shaz Syed 18 Dec 2025
A pear farm. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Local solution to farming woes? Grow a pear!

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 Dec 2025
Vivek Menon birding in Seinthuk town (now known as Shergaon) in Arunachal Pradesh. Image by Madhumay.

Vivek Menon becomes the first Asian chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission [Interview]

Nikhil Sreekandan 18 Dec 2025
A farmer burns crop residue after harvest near Bundelkhand expressway, around 330 km from New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Parliamentary committee makes widespread recommendations to improve air quality

Simrin Sirur 17 Dec 2025
One of the nine camera traps (seven of which were placed on the advise of Adi community members) yielded this image of a Chinese pangolin digging a burrow. Image by Chiging Pilia/NCF.

Indigenous knowledge to track and save the Chinese pangolin

Nikhil Sreekandan 17 Dec 2025

Heavy metals, microplastics found in fishing cats

Shailesh Shrivastava 16 Dec 2025
A painted balloon frog at Mallathalli lake. Image by Seshadri K.S.

What expanding cities are doing to frogs and toads

Aisiri Amin 16 Dec 2025
Burning of garbage releases thick smoke in a city. Image by Jaskaran Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Is the world betting too much on carbon removal technologies? [Explainer]

Debdutta Paul, Juhi Chatterjee 16 Dec 2025
M.I. Varghese, a retired Indian Forest Service officer, legal scholar, and author of A Treatise on Forest Laws in Kerala. Image by K.A. Shaji.

Forest ecology cannot be reduced to arithmetic, says M.I. Varghese [Interview]

K.A. Shaji 15 Dec 2025
Workers install a solar panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Residential rooftop solar grows under government scheme, but gaps persist [Commentary]

Gaurav Upadhyay, Prabhakar Sharma 15 Dec 2025