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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

Clean tap water mission in Puri hopes to replenish groundwater

Tazeen Qureshy 23 Aug 2021
Girls at Science Park in Kolkata. Photo by Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons.

Soils from city parks are important hotspots of microbial diversity: study

Sahana Ghosh 17 Aug 2021

Mass deaths of birds in Faridkot linked to use of chemicals on fruit trees

Vivek Gupta 5 Aug 2021

[Commentary] Nature-based solutions hold the key to transform our cities into resilient spaces

Suchismita Mukhopadhyay, Saurav Chowdhury 30 Jul 2021

Plant Man Miguel Braganza on how Konkan Fruit Fest preserves food biodiversity

Pamela D'Mello 27 Jul 2021

[Commentary] Long term rainfall patterns and flooding in Pune city

Ayushman Singh, Joy Merwin Monteiro, Bejoy K. Thomas 9 Jul 2021

[Photos] The invisible farmers of Mumbai

Geetanjali Gurlhosur 6 Jul 2021
Embankments demolished in the Mousuni island in the Sundarbans. Photo by West Bengal Radio Club.

Cyclone Yaas imperils communities in low-lying coastal areas of Bay of Bengal

Gurvinder Singh 1 Jun 2021

A forest in a city: Maintaining Chandigarh’s green cover in the face of urbanisation

Kunal Sharma, Swayam Chowdhary 27 May 2021