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Safeguarding Indian cities from heat: In conversation with Sudeshna Chatterjee [Interview]

Saumitra Shinde 15 Apr 2025
In what was arguably the biggest citizen-led environmental protest Telangana has witnessed in the recent past, university students, faculty, and environmentalists protested and stopped bulldozers from razing down Kancha Gachibowli. Image by xx.

Forest row spotlights diminishing value of urban green patches

Arathi Menon 9 Apr 2025
A river heliodor damselfly. Image by Ameya Deshpande.

Damselflies in climate distress

Arathi Menon 4 Apr 2025
The Indian Army conducts relief and rescue operations in the wake of floods that ravaged Chennai in 2015.

Solving India’s urban flooding crisis is not just a pipe dream [Commentary]

Srikanth Viswanathan and Nithya Ramesh 7 Mar 2025
Infopark in Kochi representative image urban climate resilience

A path to climate resilience through city-level research and planning

Divya Kilikar 4 Mar 2025

In the fare-play business, Namma Metro has misplaced its priorities

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Feb 2025

Leopards are adapting to central India’s urban jungle

Sneha Mahale 18 Feb 2025
City life in Jaipur. As of December 2024, around 41 cities have developed or are drafting City Climate Action Plans, as per a government statement. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0).

Fixing the gaps in city climate plans with a national framework

Kundan Pandey 11 Feb 2025
prashad's gecko

[Commentary] The indomitable and highly resilient geckos

R.J. Ranjit Daniels 22 Jan 2025
canacona taluka tourism

South Goa tourist hubs found highly vulnerable to climate change

Lisann Dias 15 Jan 2025

When heat rises, incomes fall for the informal workforce

T. V. Padma 3 Jan 2025

Citizens’ movement against tree felling modifies a flyover plan

Nabarun Guha 17 Dec 2024

How Mumbai’s golden jackals adapt to survive in the urban wilderness

Sneha Mahale 16 Dec 2024

Your Environment This Week: Tigers in the hood, indigenous cattle, Rooftop farming

Team Mongabay India 29 Nov 2024

Climate action needs cities and cities need funds

Kundan Pandey 19 Nov 2024

Matsyanyaya: A journey through India’s landscapes swallowed by urbanisation

Rashi Goel 12 Nov 2024

[Explainer] What is recycling? How does it work in India?

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Oct 2024
A landscape view of Champawat town, Uttarakhand. Urbanisation is a major driver of environmental change in the Himalayas. Image by WhiteRaven335 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Urban expansion drives forest loss in India’s biodiversity hotspots

T. V. Padma 23 Sep 2024

Your Environment This Week: Indian savannas, secret lives of small cats, food insecurity in the Himalayas

Team Mongabay India 13 Sep 2024
A 2009 image of UB City in Bengaluru. At present, one of the biggest reasons behind Bengaluru’s faltering urban system is that the city has been running without a local government for over four years. Image by Prateek Karandikar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New urban governance bill in Bengaluru faces criticism, takes away citizen power says analysis

Shailesh Shrivastava 9 Sep 2024