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With Himachal Pradesh lying in India’s high-risk seismic zones, local masons believe that traditional design is the safest option for buildings. Image by Amir Bin Rafi.

Planning gaps and modern construction keep vulnerabilities alive

Mansi Rathee 5 Dec 2025
Farmers display their pearl millet crop. Representative image by ICRISAT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Diversifying beyond rice to cut losses and improve alternative cereal yields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Dec 2025

India announces a unified climate finance mechanism to implement its climate action strategy

Manish Chandra Mishra 25 Nov 2025
A new pond being dug at Lalmarg pasture in Ganderbal district. Pastoralist communities in Kashmir work together with the nonprofit Himalayan Pastoral Trust to construct alpine ponds to store harvested rainwater in high-altitude pastures. Image by Shahid Sulaiman.

As springs dry up, pastoralists see potential in rainwater harvesting

Hirra Azmat 21 Nov 2025

India sharpens equity and finance demands as COP30 draft text raises new concerns

Manish Chandra Mishra 21 Nov 2025
Speakers at the high-level event on building cooperation for scaling climate finance. Image © UN Climate Change - Diego Herculano via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

India, China step into leadership vacuum at climate meet as the West retreats

Soumya Sarkar 21 Nov 2025
The team at Delícias Quilombolas, a family-run food stall that drew some of the longest queues in the COP30 Blue Zone in Belém. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra.

Local Brazilian producers shape the menu at COP30

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 Nov 2025
Youth at COP30 protest against fossil fuels, for a global just transition to clean energy and climate action. Image © UN Climate Change - Zô Guimarães.

India’s federal climate action model could offer a blueprint for the Global South

Soumya Sarkar 19 Nov 2025
The People’s Summit brought together more than 1,100 civil society organisations and highlighted themes such as food sovereignty, environmental justice and just transition. Image by André Ferreira/Mighty Earth.

Belém’s streets turn red, black and green as people march for climate justice

Manish Chandra Mishra 18 Nov 2025
Civil societies campaign for climate finance goals at COP30. Image © UN Climate Change - Kiara Worth via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Brazil climate summit confronts gap between finance goals and reality

Soumya Sarkar 18 Nov 2025
On November 16, activists attend the People's Summit Audience at the Federal University of Pará at COP30. Image by Alex Ferro/COP30.

Urgency grows at midpoint of Belém climate summit as intent still outpaces action

Soumya Sarkar 17 Nov 2025
Participants attend a session on information integrity at COP30. Image © UN Climate Change - Zô Guimarães via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Tackling climate disinformation is on the COP30 agenda

Aditi Tandon 13 Nov 2025
An Indigenous man takes part in a demonstration for the conservation of the Amazon rainforest at COP30 on November 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Amazon calls the world to account at 30th UN climate summit in Belém

Soumya Sarkar 10 Nov 2025

COP30 will start the phase of implementation, says Brazil’s ambassador to India [Interview]

Kundan Pandey 10 Nov 2025
Water being pumped out of a flooded road in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Representative image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

New UNEP report flags that adaptation ambitions don’t have the climate finance to support them

Manish Chandra Mishra 31 Oct 2025

India is well positioned to advance biobased climate tech, says Sara Trærup [Interview]

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Oct 2025
A graffiti outside the Chief Electoral Officer’s office in Patna urges people to vote. Image by Srish Prakash.

Climate extremes in Bihar affect its people, but not politics

Srish Prakash 22 Oct 2025
A man pushing his motorbike in a flood in West Bengal.

Early investments in climate resilience could save India billions in disaster management

Simrin Sirur 16 Oct 2025
A woman shows lemons growing oin her homestead garden in a tribal settlement in Cheeyampam. Image by Vipindas P.

How lemons have helped reclaim nutrition and support livelihoods [Commentary]

Vipindas P. 22 Sep 2025
An elderly farmer shows fallen fruit and flood damage in his submerged orchard in Pulwama. Image by Abid Bhat.

Old wounds reopened by new floods

Mudassir Kuloo 12 Sep 2025