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Garbage burning near East Kolkata Wetlands. Currently, the environmental crisis is viewed only as a pollution problem despite the data and knowledge available on the consequences of climate change.

[Commentary] Environment law needs to go beyond the ‘pollution paradigm’

Sugandha Yadav 18 Jul 2022

A new study from Karnataka evidences the impact of windfarms on biodiversity

Sneha Mahale 18 Jul 2022

[Webinar] What does India need to meet its 2030 renewable energy targets?

Team Mongabay-India 12 Jul 2022
The lack of data on the reasons behind the rapid intensification of tropical cyclones in the north Indian Ocean is a research gap that needs immediate attention, as per experts.

Understanding cyclone behaviour in a changing climate

Sahana Ghosh 11 Jul 2022

Converging heat action plans, climate goals and environmental health for healthier communities

Sahana Ghosh 8 Jul 2022

[Interview] More research about relationship between flash floods and climate change needed

Abu Siddique 7 Jul 2022
Image shows a pre-dawn view of Trishul peak in the Himalayas

[Book Review] In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the climate crisis

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 Jul 2022
Protests over dam construction in Arunachal Pradesh have been observed in the Siang River belt. However, most protests against big dams have weaken.

Dams, art and protest in Arunachal Pradesh

Ranju Dodum 4 Jul 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

[Photos] Maharashtra’s female farm workforce struggles in the shadows of floods

Sanket Jain 23 Jun 2022

Scientists unpack the influence of black carbon aerosols on rainfall in northeast India

Sahana Ghosh 23 Jun 2022
Heavy polluted road in Talcher adjacent to a railway siding where truckloads of coals are loaded into trains. Photo by-Manish Kumar/Mongabay

Environmental Performance Index: An unscientific study or an opportunity to reflect and improve?

Manish Kumar 21 Jun 2022

Farm to Fashion: How national institutions are integrating sustainability in curriculum

Tazeen Qureshy 20 Jun 2022
Namche Bazaar. Photo by Superkent/ Pixabay.

How an underground phenomenon triggered by global warming is damaging the Himalayas

Arathi Menon 16 Jun 2022

[Explainer] What are carbon sinks?

Anusha Krishnan 15 Jun 2022

Time capsules in fish ears that unpack responses to climate change

Sahana Ghosh 9 Jun 2022
A cultivated wheat field in the Rohtak district of Haryana. Photo by Kapil Kajal.

Heatwave takes a toll on north India’s wheat yield

Kapil Kajal 8 Jun 2022
Visitors examine green capsicum at the fully elevated Section 1 of the agrivoltaics plant near Parbhani. Image courtesy of NSEFI & GIZ

Climate Innovations

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2022

How the Sundarbans missed an opportunity to harness solar energy

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Subhrajit Sen 2 Jun 2022
Image shows a black and white image of cyclone Bhola

[Explainer] What are tropical cyclones? How are they formed?

Phalguni Ranjan 1 Jun 2022