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Bengaluru’s neighbourhood parks can support biodiversity

Manupriya 1 Oct 2019

Role of Miyawaki forests in mitigating urban heat island effects

Nikita Vashisth 30 Sep 2019

Dirty air from Indo-Gangetic plains, central India messing up neighbourhood ozone

Sahana Ghosh 5 Sep 2019

Sacred sites in Bengaluru: Where heritage helps conserve biodiversity

Sahana Ghosh 28 Aug 2019

Amaravati capital city project: From utopia to an uncertain future

Mayank Aggarwal 16 Aug 2019

Family plants over 6000 trees in Mumbai and inspires communities

Kartik Chandramouli 15 Aug 2019

Does the National Capital Region need another airport – at the cost of the environment?

Kanchan Srivastava 5 Aug 2019

A social venture on the road to improve lives, reduce emissions with electric rickshaws

Kartik Chandramouli 5 Aug 2019

Community farming in Goa emerges as a tool against land conversion

Pamela D'Mello 24 Jul 2019

Flood-resistant housing attracts attention in Kerala

K. Rajendran 24 Jul 2019

A year on, plastic waste returns to U.P. despite ban

Kanchan Srivastava 15 Jul 2019
As Mumbai's natural defenders against floods are razed down to make way for housing, the residents are the ones exposed to the risk of floods. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.

Why the city that never stops comes to a standstill when it rains

Kanchan Srivastava, Aditi Tandon 9 Jul 2019

Chennai water crisis once again exposes the city’s climate vulnerability

Dharani Thangavelu, S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jun 2019

Delhi is running out of water, and it is everybody’s problem

Akshita Nagpal 24 Jun 2019

[Book Review] The stories of our roots

Aditi Tandon 19 Jun 2019

As Kolkata’s groundwater level depletes, consequences go beyond water shortage

Gurvinder Singh 18 Jun 2019

Women lead the way in disaster preparedness, recovery in Odisha’s Ganjam

Sahana Ghosh 3 Jun 2019

[Commentary] Back to the Future: Lessons from Cyclone Fani

Nambi Appadurai, Parvathi Preethan, Raj Bhagat Palanichamy 29 May 2019
A two-tailed spider perfectly blending with the bark of a tree. Photo by Jency Samuel.

[Photos] City dwellers…now you see me?

Jency Samuel 28 May 2019

[Commentary] Biodiversity heritage sites could turn out to be a lifeline for India’s conservation efforts

Kunal Sharma 22 May 2019