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A mountain of waste generated from coal mining stands in the Kathara area of Bokaro district, Jharkhand. Image by Kundan Pandey/Mongabay.

The mine closes but the transition is far from over

Kundan Pandey 17 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
A Nilgiri pipit, the only grassland specialist species that was part of the study. Image by P. Jeganathan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Disappearing grasslands impact bird populations, study finds

Simrin Sirur 14 Aug 2026
A worker clears weeds from Dal lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The fraught politics and ethics of climate rankings [Commentary]

Chirag Dhara 14 Aug 2026
A male Nagami mithun. Image by Harshit Kumar.

Genetic study of the Arunachali mithun flags declining breeding population

Barasha Das 13 Aug 2026

Nine anchor species could meet India’s biodiversity and climate targets

Shradha Triveni 13 Aug 2026

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

Phalguni Ranjan 13 Aug 2026

The carbon market bets on an invasive tree

Yash Sadhak Shrivastava 12 Aug 2026
One of the world's rarest pheasants, the western tragopan depends on undisturbed mountain forests for survival, but faces growing pressure from habitat degradation and human disturbance. Image by Jainy Maria.

Himalayan pheasants face mounting human pressure

Hirra Azmat 11 Aug 2026
A tiger walks past a vehicle carrying tourists in Ranthambore National Park in 2010. (AP Photo/ Mustafa Quraishi, File)

Tourism, human disturbance linked to higher stress in tigers

Sneha Mahale 11 Aug 2026

Assam floods expose a crisis beyond heavy rain

Nabarun Guha 11 Aug 2026

Why Western Ghats states can’t agree on Eco-Sensitive Areas

Simrin Sirur 10 Aug 2026
Dasharam Thakre, a grazer from Borghundi village in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. Thakre plays an important role in locating dead cattle and facilitating relief. Image by Ravin Mahle.

As herders quit, the skills that helped human-tiger coexistence, disappear [Commentary]

Varun Sharma 10 Aug 2026
Labourers work at a metro line project in Aarey colony, amid protests against felling of trees in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Supreme court upholds centre’s power to notify post-facto clearance

Kundan Pandey 7 Aug 2026
A pair of bar-headed geese in flight. They migrate from Central Asia to India in large flocks during the winter. Image by Hari K. Patibanda via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

New clues into how animals evolved an internal compass to navigate Earth

Nupur Fangaria 7 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
A sloth bear in the Aravallis. Image by Utkarsh Prajapati.

Sloth bears are unlikely seed dispersers shaping forests

Sneha Mahale 6 Aug 2026

Mumbai’s informal settlements struggle to power their homes

Rhea Arora 5 Aug 2026
The first confirmed photographic evidence of the Eurasian lynx in Sikkim. Image courtesy of Forest & Environment Department, Sikkim, and WWF-India.

Rare lynx photo puts spotlight on high-altitude rangelands

Manish Chandra Mishra 4 Aug 2026

Scientists identify new deep-sea shark species from India’s southwest coast

Ananya Singh 4 Aug 2026