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A woman works at a coal depot in Ahmedabad in the summer of 2022, when heatwaves were scorching the country. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]

Sarthak Shukla, Siddharth Sareen 12 Aug 2025
The construction of the Mandal dam began in the 1970s, and was left unfinished. It is now being revived, and met with protests from local communities who are being denied the jobs, land titles and compensation promised. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla/Mongabay.

A dam that drowned dreams but never delivered water

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 1 Aug 2025
Workers install solar panels in Karim Shahi village, Bhuj district, Gujarat in 2023. India received around $2.4 billion in 2024 for project type interventions in clean energy generation, with solar PVs leading the surge. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Foreign investments are helping drive India’s clean energy boom

Elena Mathew 30 Jul 2025
A wind-solar hybrid energy system installed at Mumbai airport. Image by WindStream Energy Technologies PVT LTD via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

India achieves 50% non-fossil power capacity five years ahead of target

Kundan Pandey 17 Jul 2025
A power plant in Kolkata. Representative image by Smeet Chowdhury via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Sulphur dioxide emission norms relaxed for thermal power plants

Simrin Sirur 15 Jul 2025
A weather monitoring station at Randullabad, Maharashtra. Representative image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Improved weather forecasting can help manage renewable energy grid

Kundan Pandey 11 Jul 2025
A man makes chapatis in Mara village, Morena district, Madhya Pradesh. The SDG on affordable and clean energy shows moderate improvement. Image by Yann Forget via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

India improves performance on SDGs but lags on environment

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 4 Jul 2025
Electric scooter manufacturing unit in Tamil Nadu. Image by Gnoeee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India races to secure rare earth minerals as China restricts exports

Kundan Pandey 16 Jun 2025
General view of the motorcoach ready for service — First GIPR EMU, 1924. Image courtesy of Central Railway.

The railway journey to net zero began a century ago, but coal slows it down

Esha Lohia 6 Jun 2025
Shipping containers at the Port of Tokyo. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has approved a framework that will require ships to pay for carbon emissions starting in 2028. Image by Syced via Wikimedia Commons (CC-Zero).

Shipping industry sets sail towards carbon accountability

Kundan Pandey 21 Apr 2025

The potential toxic fallout of herbicide use in solar parks

Gowthami Subramaniam 6 Mar 2025
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India approves mission to bridge critical mineral gap in energy transition

Esha Lohia 7 Feb 2025
Solar panels and internet dish on a guest house roof at Phuktal Gompa, Zanskar, Ladakh. Decentralised renewable energy received a boost with an 80% rise in PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana’s allocation. Image: Timothy A. Gonsalves via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Budget prioritises resilience and energy security, skips major green announcements

Kundan Pandey 4 Feb 2025

[Explainer] How did India phase out ozone-depleting substances and what lies ahead?

Kundan Pandey 17 Jan 2025
One of two locomotives ordered by the Indian Iron & Steel Company in 1923. India's high carbon emissions and export reliance on the EU for steel and iron leave it highly exposed to CBAM's impact. Image by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via flickr.

Indian steel exports could take a beating as EU fences its carbon borders

Kundan Pandey 26 Dec 2024
Varaha-3 being deployed in the Andaman Sea for an exploratory mining trial. Image from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT).

India advances with deep-sea mining technology

Priyanka Shankar 18 Nov 2024
An electric scooter manufacturing unit in India. With rapid growth, urbanisation, and environmental challenges such as air and water pollution, India’s green technology market is attracting major international interest. Image by Gnoeee via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0).

Amid the global green goods boom, India is yet to jump on the bandwagon

Kundan Pandey 20 Sep 2024

It’s been 5 years of the National Clean Air Programme. This is why it hasn’t worked.

Simrin Sirur 2 Sep 2024
A laborer at Shivam Bricks in Gaya, where zigzag technology was installed in 2018 to reduce pollution. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay

Brick kilns embrace zigzag design to cut pollution and boost efficiency

Manish Chandra Mishra 27 Aug 2024

Coal mining degraded 35% of native land cover in India’s central coal belt

Simrin Sirur 16 Aug 2024