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Children playing cricket in Goa.

Panjim riverfront’s urban green lungs under pressure from entertainment tourism

Pamela D'Mello 2 Jan 2023

Mizoram youth protest against the national highways widening project

Nabarun Guha 17 Nov 2022

Urban farms offer a fresh perspective on managing kitchen waste and nurturing a community

Saumitra Shinde 14 Nov 2022

Models spotlight India’s clean energy transition pathways

Sahana Ghosh 11 Nov 2022

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022
Dahisar in north Mumbai. Photo by Saumitra Shinde/Mongabay.

Mumbai activists demand that the tree geo-tagging information be made public

Hepzi Anthony 20 Oct 2022

Health effects of heat stress will intensify disproportionately without ambitious efforts

Sahana Ghosh 23 Sep 2022
A house flooded in Kerala during the floods of 2018.

Risk-informed planning essential to prevent floods in Kochi

Supriya Vohra 15 Sep 2022

Manipur landslide sparks ecological debate

Kasturi Das 26 Aug 2022
Image shows a lake under overcast skies in India

A hope for climate-focused urban planning in Assam’s cities reeling from severe floods

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 10 Aug 2022

What if we designed homes to stay cool?

Nithya Subramanian 4 Aug 2022
A tiger using an underpass on NH44.

Monitoring crossing structures in tiger reserves offers insights into species movement, behaviour

Gana Kedlaya 25 Jul 2022

Will an affordable public charging ecosystem boost electric mobility in Delhi?

Manish Kumar 21 Jul 2022

Converging heat action plans, climate goals and environmental health for healthier communities

Sahana Ghosh 8 Jul 2022

[Illustrations] Why are temperatures within a city’s neighbourhoods different?

Alisha Vasudev 6 Jul 2022

[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

Lucknow, a case study for permanently disappearing aquifers in north India

Monika Mandal 16 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Water tariff could be a tool to improve water use efficiency in domestic sector

Apoorva Bamal, Niyati Seth 7 Jun 2022

‘Delhi is a gaping wound…we’re a tiny Band Aid’: a film explores human and non-human relations in Delhi

Kartik Chandramouli 27 May 2022