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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
Cracks appear in Basant Dangi's field in Pathalgada village, where he normally grows a paddy nursery. Image by Vishal Kumar Jain.

Low rainfall delays paddy farming signalling El Niño-induced drought

Vishal Kumar Jain 27 Jul 2026
A diggi in Jamal. Image by Partik Kumar.

Rethinking irrigation through farm ponds [Commentary]

Partik Kumar, Parul 27 Jul 2026
A buyer bargains with a sugarcane vendor. Representative image. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Rising sugarcane yields coexist with climate, water risks in semi-arid India

Sneha Mahale 23 Jul 2026
Conocarpus erectus saplings. Representative image by TreeWorld Wholesale via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Why is Conocarpus being banned across states? [Explainer]

Nikhil Sreekandan 20 Jul 2026
A man sells neem sticks and leaves in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

The neem patent case and India’s next battle over traditional knowledge [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Sarvesh J.P., G. Ravikanth 14 Jul 2026
A cement naala baandh in Kiraksal constructed in 2017. Image by Vinaya Kurtkoti.

Watershed management improves livelihoods in drought-prone village

Vinaya Kurtkoti 9 Jul 2026
A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
Aquatic plants dominate the water surface of Dal Lake. Image by Akhil Paul.

Scientists test turning aquatic weeds into liquid fertilisers

Hirra Azmat 7 Jul 2026
A herd of elephants captured by camera traps at an altitude of over 3,200 metres, the highest known record of elephant presence. Image courtesy of WWF-India/Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department.

As elephants venture to higher altitudes researchers track possibilities of conflict

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Jul 2026