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Forgotten vegetables could help make our diets more resilient

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 6 Oct 2026
A farmer grazer her cattle. Image by Mahesh Maske.

Maharashtra formally recognises women farmers regardless of land ownership [Commentary]

Soumya Swaminathan 1 Oct 2026
Banner Image: The Maharashtra government has declared drought in 265 of the state's 358 talukas. Image by Mahendraparikh23 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Maharashtra declares drought as El Niño deepens

Kundan Pandey 28 Sep 2026
Geeta Devi mud house remains partially submerged in flood water. She worries how long it would hold. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Floods affect millions in Bihar despite rainfall deficit

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 Sep 2026
Vegetable vendors use Parthenium leaves to line vegetable baskets. Image by Barasha Das.

The itchy spread of Parthenium

Barasha Das 15 Sep 2026
Rama Shankar with his family's cattle in Doda Mafi village. Image by Shivam Bhardwaj.

The grass is greener only on paper

Shivam Bhardwaj 4 Sep 2026
A farmer sets fire to crop residue on the out skirts of Jalandhar, Punjab. (AP Photo)

Crop-residue burning, a major contributor to black carbon pollution: Study

Nikhil Sreekandan 3 Sep 2026
A farmer stands on a parched paddy field near Jammu in 2014. Representative image. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

El Niño brings drought declaration into sharper focus

Simrin Sirur 3 Sep 2026
The gap in sowing has narrowed, but persistent regional deficits remain relevant for crop prospects and rural incomes, according to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)’s latest review. Image by Kundan Pandey/Mongabay.

Kharif sowing deficit narrows, but El Niño remains a risk

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2026
With its embankment breached and the basin choked with silt, Keshav Yadav’s farm pond remains dry, leaving Yadav without any means to irrigate his Rabi crops after erratic rainfall. Image by Shivam Bharadwaj.

When farm ponds fail to hold water

Shivam Bhardwaj 26 Aug 2026
Vinu A. Muthukuzhi, inspects his plantain farm that suffered massive loss in the recent heavy rainfall and flooding in Kalliyoor, Thiruvananthapuram.

Kerala’s Onam festival marred by a weaker monsoon and subsequent crop loss

K. Rajendran 25 Aug 2026
A camera trap image of a wolf and pup. Image courtesy of Jharkhand Forest Department.

Study from India’s first wolf sanctuary reveals when livestock are most at risk

Sneha Mahale 25 Aug 2026
Kafal (Myrica esculenta) is a local seasonal berry found in the mid-Himalayan region. Image by Divya Chowfin.

Better demand could save indigenous fruits from being forgotten

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Aug 2026
Farmers release crabs into a paddy field in Borborua block, Dibrugarh district. Image by Anirban Roy.

Harvesting rice and crabs on one field offers farmers a climate-resilient alternative

Azera Parveen Rahman 18 Aug 2026
A male peacock perches on the branch of a Machilus odoratissima tree. Sighted at 2,400 m in the Sirikhola-Gurdum village near Singalila National Park. Image by Mingma Tamang.

Increasing numbers of the Indian peafowl worry farmers [Commentary]

Aditya Pradhan 17 Aug 2026

Free-ranging dogs, changing livelihoods reshape an agro-pastoral landscape

Phalguni Ranjan 13 Aug 2026
A pond recently dug by the government in Palamu. When Mongabay-India visited in late July, the pond held little water. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

After decades of drought-proofing, farms still depend on rain

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 6 Aug 2026
Fishers at work in Vembanad Lake, Kerala. Image courtesy of India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

A fertile landscape at the crossroads of ecology and development [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 3 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
A sugarcane field in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

India’s ethanol push moves from the pump to the field, raising water and food questions

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Jul 2026