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Salt pans save Mumbai from floods. So why are they under threat?

Nikhil S. Dixit 14 Oct 2019

Future tense for ecologically sensitive Dahanu

Michelle C. 11 Oct 2019

MoEFCC expert committee gives wildlife clearance for Kaiga nuclear plant’s expansion

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Oct 2019
(L to R) Ranjitha (radio jockey), Durga (volunteer) and Aparna (station director) inside the recording room at Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli, a community radio station based in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.

How a community radio gives voice to the climate-vulnerable in Tamil Nadu

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Sep 2019

Is the deep water sea project in Kerala an environmental and livelihood threat?

K.A. Shaji 19 Aug 2019

Mumbai’s fishers relieved after courts pause the coastal road project

Nikhil S. Dixit 12 Aug 2019

Spotlighting the rising stars: Neglected crops in saline areas in a changing climate

Sahana Ghosh 9 Aug 2019
The Tharuvaikulam wharf from where the palmyra tree climbers who took to fishing set sail with their eco-friendly gill nets.

Tharuvaikulam’s palmyra climbers turn sustainable fishers

Jency Samuel 9 Aug 2019

She guards Mumbai’s defence against climate change

Kartik Chandramouli 25 Jul 2019
Women are an important part of India’s fishing industry, especially as fish sellers. In Mangalore market they also work as loaders. Photo by Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar.

India begins regulating its fisheries

Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar 22 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

[Commentary] Why is marine conservation still an uncharted zone?

Shimul Bijoor, Madhuri Ramesh, Deepika Sharma 12 Jun 2019

What is seagrass?

Sandhya Sekar 4 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

Five Kochi buildings to be razed down for CRZ violations

Aathira Perinchery 20 May 2019
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Your environment this week: Punjab farmers’ widows contest elections, Ganga is shifting at Patna

Mongabay.com 17 May 2019
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Fixing agriculture a decade after cyclone Aila: A farmer recollects

Sahana Ghosh 3 May 2019

March of industrialisation tramples Kutch’s coastal ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 May 2019
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Infrastructure and environment battle it out in the maximum city

Nikhil S. Dixit 26 Apr 2019