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Natural, man-made air pollutants tinkering with Guwahati’s rainwater

Sahana Ghosh 22 Oct 2019

Sky-bound Navi Mumbai airport leaves project-affected behind

Nikhil S. Dixit 17 Oct 2019

Ready to lose life but not land for the bullet train, say Maharashtra’s farmers and tribals

Mayank Aggarwal 7 Oct 2019
Coonoor stream after it was cleaned up. Photo by Clean Coonoor.

Coonoor citizens and officials clean the streams and river in the hill town

Nina Varghese 2 Oct 2019

Badly designed highways splinter Goa’s waterways, disrupting local hydrology

Pamela D'Mello 1 Oct 2019

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