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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
A security personal watches as a worker seals the lid of a tanker filled with ethanol at a factory, in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Supporting infrastructure is the missing link in India’s ethanol push

Manish Chandra Mishra 24 Jul 2026
A commuter rides through a dense, low-lying blanket of toxic smog at sunset, a common winter and post-monsoon reality along rural Bihar's unmanaged waste dumping tracks. Image by Himanshu Praveen.

The hidden burden of rural air pollution

Himanshu Praveen 17 Jul 2026
A fuel station in Belém, Brazil, where consumers can choose between ethanol-blended gasoline and hydrous ethanol. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

What India’s ethanol push can learn from Brazil’s long ethanol journey

Manish Chandra Mishra 16 Jul 2026
A biogas plant setup at Sahyadri School in Pune district. Image courtesy of Aditya Kamble/Vaayu Mitra.

LPG shortage leads to increased demand for clean-cooking solutions

Shuchita Jha 11 May 2026
Garbage being collected for segregation at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi. The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, within which a study reveals higher temperature zones are widening. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s new waste management rules face old implementation gaps

Jyotsnika Tiwari 6 Mar 2026

India is well positioned to advance biobased climate tech, says Sara Trærup [Interview]

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Oct 2025

Converting carbon dioxide into fuels for the future

Simrin Sirur 11 Oct 2024
Spineless fodder cactus growing in the IGFRI campus in Jhansi. Image- Shuchita Jha

Experimenting with biogas from cactus

Shuchita Jha 14 Aug 2024
Spineless cactus farm at the IGFRI campus in Jhansi. Image by Shuchita Jha/Mongabay

Uttar Pradesh to fast-track biofuel production with the right blend of ethanol and biogas

Shuchita Jha 24 Jul 2024
Biogas fumes generated from waste water produced after treatment of sago. Photo by Laasya Shekhar/Mongabay.

High capital investment and poor access to subsidies, a drawback for biogas in sago industry

Laasya Shekhar 5 Jul 2023
Truckloads of sugarcane from farmers entering into a sugar mill at Baramati in Maharashtra. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

Waste to bio-CNG: The role of Indian sugar mills in the transition to cleaner fuel

Manish Kumar 6 Jan 2023
Image shows a bus

[Explainer] Are biofuels finally coming of age?

Anusha Krishnan 13 Jul 2022

Increase in ethanol derived from feedstock could burden farms, groundwater

Manish Kumar 29 Mar 2022

Chhattisgarh plans biofuel production from paddy

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 28 Jul 2021
A vendor carrying LPG cylinders

Government survey paints a different picture of Ujjwala scheme claims

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2021

Household air pollution: Empowering women could boost LPG adoption

Neha Jain 8 Sep 2020

[Commentary] Why the plane could, yet the country can’t, run on biofuel?

Monika Mandal 5 Aug 2020

Less firewood at home means better health for the family

Neha Jain 30 Aug 2018