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Labourers arrange steel buckets at a manufacturing factory. Representative image. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

New report flags sulphur dioxide emissions from Bokaro Steel Plant

Simrin Sirur 4 Mar 2026
A school girl wearing a face mask walks across a foot over bridge amidst smog in New Delhi in November, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Pollution concentrations soar higher above ground during haze

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Mar 2026
Workers use hand carts to transport bricks at a brick kiln in Farrukhabad district, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Old kilns, new blocks, uncertain futures

Tanvi Bhatia 26 Feb 2026
National Disaster Response Force personnel conduct a rescue operation at the site of the explosion at Baghjan, Tinsukia district, Assam on June 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Partha Sarathi Das)

A new book documents voices from the Baghjan disaster

Nabarun Guha 19 Feb 2026
A technician at work at a factory that produces ethanol in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Policy shifts test Bihar’s ethanol-led industrial revival

Umesh Kumar Ray 13 Feb 2026
A man attempts to recover a vehicle submerged in mud following floods along the Teesta River in 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Eastern Himalayan hydropower risks locking in climate maladaptation [Commentary]

Sharon Sarah Thawaney 11 Feb 2026
The pit in Thangkso in East Jaintia Hills where the accident took place. NDRF personnel carrying out their operation. Image by NDRF.

Incident at illegal coal mine resurfaces concerns about banned rat hole mining

Nabarun Guha 10 Feb 2026
Gunjavane’s sarpanch, Laxman Rasal (R), and Raintree Foundation field officer Pravin Sanga Shetty at a desilted and revived percolation tank that stores rainwater flowing down from surrounding hills and gradually recharges nearby wells. Image by Saumitra Shinde/Mongabay.

Hilly villages trap runoff to tackle water scarcity amid plenty

Kartik Chandramouli 5 Feb 2026
Workers check the quality of a solar panel at the production line up at a manufacturing plant on the outskirts of Jaipur, Rajasthan. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Budget signals a shift in India’s climate and energy priorities

Kundan Pandey 3 Feb 2026
An aluminium factory. Representative image by uc_rusal_photo_gallery via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Four more industries face emissions reduction targets

Simrin Sirur 22 Jan 2026
A government vehicle sprinkles water to control air pollution in New Delhi. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Monitoring India’s clean air programme needs reimagining, suggests analysis

Simrin Sirur 14 Jan 2026
A highway being constructed on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Ministry changes land acquisition requirements for select projects seeking clearance

Simrin Sirur 12 Jan 2026
Journalists Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj on the set of Walking Against the Heat, a film produced as part of the Video Reporting Opportunity by All Living Things Environment Film Festival and Mongabay-India. Image courtesy of Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj.

Taking environmental storytelling beyond the screen in 2025

Sandhya Sekar 26 Dec 2025
The Red Fort. Image by Amit Rawat via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Air pollution is the silent enemy of Indian monuments

Shilpa Raina 23 Dec 2025
A sloth bear with her cubs in Mahrashtra. Representative image by Rohit Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Proposed sloth bear reserve caught between courts and a thermal power project

Shaz Syed 18 Dec 2025
A woman collects firewood in Rajasthan. Representative image by Engineering for Change via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

LPG adoption correlates with higher green cover, finds study

Simrin Sirur 5 Dec 2025
Workers at a bakery get newly baked pav ready for sale. Image by Megha Acharya/Mongabay-India.

Clean fuel mandate pushes Mumbai’s traditional pav bakeries away from coal

Esha Lohia 5 Dec 2025
Tejashri Shelke, the sarpanch of Shelkewadi, stated that all of the homes in the 'Pink Village' are owned by women and symbolically painted pink. Image by Abhijeet Gurjar.

Rooftop solar consumers face uncertainty in Maharashtra

Abhijeet Gurjar 4 Dec 2025

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

Manish Chandra Mishra 25 Nov 2025
Indian delegates at the closing plenary on November 22. Image © UN Climate Change – Kiara Worth via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Soaring expectations met with sinking outcomes at climate summit

Soumya Sarkar 24 Nov 2025