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Climate change to redefine survival strategies for India’s iconic sea turtles

Soumya Sarkar 3 Nov 2025
A betel shop continues to operate, while the shop next door has shut, due to dwindling business following the shutting down of a thermal power plant in Talcher, Odisha. Image by Roli Srivastava.

The invisible fallout of thermal power plant closures on local economies

Roli Srivastava 31 Oct 2025
Watershed works have raised the water table in Charmalik region, enabling farmers to irrigate with dugwells and cultivate multiple crops. Image by Nidhi Jamwal.

Collective action transforms farming and forests

Nidhi Jamwal 23 Sep 2025
Women farmers planting millets, a climate-resilient and water-efficient crop, in Keonjhar district, Odisha. Photo by Tanmoy Bhaduri/IWMI.

AI-based drought advisory tool aimed at enabling early action

Manish Chandra Mishra 11 Jul 2025
A shrimp farmer shows his harvest in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. Representative image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

The conservation conundrum leaves shrimp farmers on edge

Aishwarya Mohanty 10 Apr 2025
Meliodosis infections in Odisha tend to be highest during heavy rainfall, high humidity, high cloud cover, and low sunlight conditions. In Odisha, these conditions prevail for half the year. Image by Chinmayee Mishra via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Climate-based mapping of a rare but emerging disease in Odisha

Anusha Krishnan 13 Mar 2025
coal mining dust jharsuguda odisha

Coal dust chokes plants and trees in mining areas

Simrin Sirur 12 Feb 2025

Experimenting with artificial reefs to protect marine ecosystems

Aishwarya Mohanty 12 Feb 2025

[Explainer] What is blue carbon?

Phalguni Ranjan 20 Jan 2025
Claim filing process for the habitat rights in Mayurbhanj district. Image courtesy of Vasundhara (Shyam Sundar Sahoo)

[Explainer] What are habitat rights?

Shuchita Jha 13 Jan 2025

[Commentary] Can CAMPA compensate for the loss of forest land?

Himanshu Upadhyaya, Vaishnavi Paliya 6 Jan 2025

A fishing cat survey indicates robust population density

Arathi Menon 8 Oct 2024

Dwindling forest commons leave Koraput tribal communities with little to celebrate

Simrin Sirur 22 May 2024

More than 15 years on, implementation of Forest Right Act is lagging, new report finds

Simrin Sirur 4 Apr 2024
A local highlighting tree felling in forest area of Kalahandi in Odisha. Photo by Ishan Kukreti/Mongabay India

Conflict over critical mineral prospecting in Odisha signals need for better community involvement

Ishan Kukreti 14 Mar 2024

Restaurants fuelling demand for shark meat in India, finds study

Simrin Sirur 24 Jan 2024

Repurposing farm waste to cultivate mushrooms

Aishwarya Mohanty 21 Dec 2023
Groups of four women form a forest patrol team in Kodalpalli village in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.

The Forest Rights Act sees outcome in a women-led forest stewardship scheme in Odisha

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Nov 2023
Horseshoe crab in Sundarbans. The species also referred to as the living fossils have survived over 400 million years. Photo by David Raju/Wikimedia Commons

Horseshoe crab decline sparks urgent conservation plea

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Nov 2023

As lightning kills 12 in a day, Odisha proposes large-scale palm tree plantations

Aishwarya Mohanty 17 Oct 2023