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The desperate battle of Mizoram’s farmers with rats

Barasha Das, Surajit Sharma 19 Mar 2026
A herder with a flock of sheep at Raghwa village in Jaisalmer district, where a 2700 MW solar park has been earmarked. Image by Manu Moudgil.

A 700 km-long foot march to save sacred groves from solar projects

Manu Moudgil 19 Mar 2026
A lesser flamingo in Mumbai. Image by Sujai.rajapaul via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A vibrant pink wetland visitor

Team Mongabay-India 18 Mar 2026
The main building of the Varanasi MMT. Image by Rahul Singh.

Traditional boatmen washed out by waterways infrastructure and tourism

Rahul Singh 17 Mar 2026
Trilokinath glacier valley in Lahaul. Image courtesy of Pushpendra Pandey.

The driest spring in four centuries in the Western Himalayas

Vandana K. 16 Mar 2026
A view of the Tarapur MIDC in Boisar. Image by Meena Menon.

Oleum leak puts spotlight on safety and pollution in a chemical hub

Meena Menon 16 Mar 2026

A predator in the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 11 Mar 2026
Amegilla zonata. Representative image by Tisha Mukherjee via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Roadsides, farms may shelter native bees in the northwestern Himalayas

Hirra Azmat 11 Mar 2026
Researcher Vedant Patil documents informal milk traders in western Uttar Pradesh, showing how heat stress has reduced milk yields and affected their livelihoods. Image courtesy of Sustaina India.

Artists trace the journey of food, environment and livelihoods

Shilpa Raina 10 Mar 2026
Garbage being collected for segregation at the Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi. The Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi, within which a study reveals higher temperature zones are widening. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s new waste management rules face old implementation gaps

Jyotsnika Tiwari 6 Mar 2026
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
Researchers from CUSAT and the Science Centre Thuruthikkara conduct testing for microplastic elements in the well water at Vidhya Manjush's residence. Image by Suresh Thuruthikkara.

Community-led water conservation revives groundwater

Anjana V. 27 Feb 2026
Bamboo crafts in the works in village courtyards. Image by Kulesh Bhandari.

Climate stress, market gap weaken traditional bamboo craft [Commentary]

Kulesh Bhandari 26 Feb 2026
A waste picker drinks water while working during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Cities may heat up disproportionately faster than rural neighbours, even at 2°C warming

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 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
Madhav Gadgil at a school in Kasargod. Image by Harish Vasudevan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Madhav Gadgil: the hub of a wheel, the voice of the Ghats [Commentary]

John Kurien 18 Feb 2026
A white-bellied sea eagle nesting on an electric pylon along Odisha’s coast. Such pylons expose raptors to several risks, including nest removal by maintenance crew and possible electrocution. Image by Sakti Prasad Pattnayak.

Artificial nesting structures may act as ecological traps for white-bellied sea eagles

Ananya Singh 16 Feb 2026
A bolt of lighting strikes over in Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Air pollution can both fuel and suppress lightning in India, study finds

Manish Chandra Mishra 12 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