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A worker clears weeds from Dal lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The fraught politics and ethics of climate rankings [Commentary]

Chirag Dhara 14 Aug 2026

The carbon market bets on an invasive tree

Yash Sadhak Shrivastava 12 Aug 2026
A sloth bear in the Aravallis. Image by Utkarsh Prajapati.

Sloth bears are unlikely seed dispersers shaping forests

Sneha Mahale 6 Aug 2026
A hoverfly spotted in Ladakh. Image courtesy of Geetha Iyer.

Flies are overlooked pollinators and farmers’ friends

Geetha Iyer 3 Aug 2026

The wild cat with a unique stripe pattern

Team Mongabay-India 29 Jul 2026
A diggi in Jamal. Image by Partik Kumar.

Rethinking irrigation through farm ponds [Commentary]

Partik Kumar, Parul 27 Jul 2026
A great hornbill carries food to her nest. Image by Angadachappa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Farmers of the forest

Team Mongabay-India 22 Jul 2026
Many women from the Irular community depend on seasonal brackish pools around the Kovalam-Nemmeli backwaters for their livelihood. Imge by Smitha T.K.

Fishers, naturalists worry about the impacts of turning a coastal wetland into a reservoir

Smitha T.K. 13 Jul 2026
A hill myna. Image by Bernard Dupont via Flickr (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why looking at trees is a type of rebellion [Book Review]

Aarushi Agrawal 13 Jul 2026
People rest under the shade of trees in New Delhi as the city is gripped by a heat wave in June 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Cooling cities needs climate-smart design, not just more trees

Deepa Padmanabhan 9 Jul 2026
A man navigates the waterways through the Picharavam mangroves, collecting wild halophytes have taken root alongside the salt-tolerant mangrove trees following restoration near Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Why feasibility matters for land use projects in India [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, J.V. Sharma 7 Jul 2026
A beekeeper in the Nilgiris harvests honey from her hive. Image by Shawn J. Stephen/Keystone Foundation.

Indigenous women build new livelihoods with hive boxes

Arathi Menon 3 Jul 2026
Women wade into the East Kolkata Wetlands to forage for small crabs and fish, a practice that is often done before the working day begins. Image by Sukanya Basu.

The slow exit of foraging in urban blue spaces

Jyotsnika Tiwari 22 May 2026
Sub-tropical pine forests in Himachal Pradesh. Image by Meenakshi Kapoor.

Rules for forest conservation may facilitate diversions [Analysis]

Meenakshi Kapoor 30 Apr 2026
A natural farming practitioner works at her farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture frames soil health, water-use efficiency, and biodiversity conservation as agricultural priorities. Representative image. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s farms do ecological work that no policy has accounted [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Prasanna N.S., G. Ravikanth 29 Apr 2026
Trees at a park in Kochi, Kerala. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

New database captures urban tree diversity

Simrin Sirur 27 Apr 2026
A sarus crane feeds its offspring. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN Red List, and Shekha jheel is a critical stronghold for the species. Representative image by Drsssuresh1961 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ramsar wetland tag needs to be followed up with sustained management, say experts

Manish Chandra Mishra 24 Apr 2026

Plugging data gaps in global plant diversity using citizen science

Anusha Krishnan 22 Apr 2026

Nature’s clean-up crew

Team Mongabay-India 15 Apr 2026
A green moray eel. Image by P. Lindgren via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

From diversity to monotony, ecological communities are homogenising

Trisha Putturaya, Guha Dharmarajan 9 Apr 2026