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Image shows a honeybee surrounded by yellow flowers

What do bees see? Developing urban gardens to attract pollinators

Shobha Menon 12 May 2022

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 May 2022

[Explainer] What are urban heat islands?

Anusha Krishnan 13 Apr 2022

Mahatma hill’s avian diversity shows the importance of conserving the ‘tekdis’ of Pune

Vinaya Kurtkoti 31 Mar 2022

Reviving history and the environment in the City of Djinns and saints

Archana Singh 24 Mar 2022
The Mangrave: A community art project by The Earthivist Collective highlights the plight of this important ecosystem on the outskirts of Panaji. Photo by The Earthivist Collective

[Commentary] A city on marsh: Why Indian coastal cities need to design and build with nature

Aaron Savio Lobo, Ashali Bhandari, Karthikeyan Kuppu 22 Mar 2022
Trees uprooted by Cyclone Hudhud in a residential area of Visakhapatnam. Photo by Indian Navy.

Plan adaptation and mitigation to factor in growing risk of compound extremes, study suggests

Sahana Ghosh 21 Mar 2022
A view of Deepor Beel Wildlife Sanctuary. Photo by Sanskrita Bharadwaj.

Saving elephants from train hits near Deepor beel in Assam

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 17 Mar 2022

[Video] A Kerala village’s quest towards carbon neutrality

Salim Joseph 4 Mar 2022

Birds in Delhi ponds remind us why we should not ignore small urban wetlands

Kartik Chandramouli 31 Jan 2022

Snakes in Bengaluru city

Almaas Masood 19 Jan 2022

Citizens attempt to revive mahua trees in Mumbai

Hepzi Anthony 18 Jan 2022
Pokkudan's children revived the defunct Kallen Pokkudan Mangrove Trust in recent months, formed by their father in 2013 to impart mangrove conservation literacy to society. Photo by Bhavapriya JU.

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 31 Dec 2021

Chennai’s fight to preserve its wetlands and stay above water

Nina Varghese 29 Dec 2021

[Webinar] Rooftops as solar superstores

Team Mongabay-India 24 Dec 2021
Traffic passing through a flooded road. Photo by Ronie/ Pixahive.

Urban climate resilience comes into focus as COP26 highlights vulnerabilities of cities

Priyanka Shankar 21 Dec 2021

Rooftop solar prepares prosumers in Odisha for power cuts during disasters

Manish Kumar 19 Nov 2021

[Interview] Chennai floods again after losing many blue and green spaces

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 11 Nov 2021

A to Z guide to Bengaluru’s lakes

Labonie Roy, Mongabay India, Citizen Matters 20 Sep 2021

Environmentalists concerned over easy clearances for Bengaluru’s real estate

Bhanu Sridharan 8 Sep 2021