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A vegetable vendor sits beside air coolers outside a shop in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

El Niño link offers early warning of humid heat

Archita Bhatta 4 Nov 2026
A markhor in Jammu and Kashmir. Image by Riyaz Ahmad.

Study maps foot-and-mouth disease risk zones where livestock and wildlife overlap

Hirra Azmat 2 Nov 2026
A rescue worker near excavators at the core disaster-hit area at Gyirong Port following the August 26 mudslide on September 6, 2026. (Tingshu Wang/Pool photo via AP)

Scientists explore whether Himalayan disasters can be anticipated

Max Martin 30 Oct 2026
Residents of Satyanarayanpur village in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, push their boat into the waters of Sundarbans. Sea level rise is eating away at the islands of the Sundarbans in India and Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

The Sundarbans at the crossroads of climate change and human survival [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 26 Oct 2026
A taxi on the move in Kolkata, West Bengal. A global air-monitoring study quantified tyre-derived chemicals in the air using passive samplers. Kolkata ranked first among all global cities in diphenylguanidine concentration. Image by Dharamveer via Pexels.

The toxic tyre chemical no one is measuring

Lakshmi Nilakantan 22 Oct 2026
Workers install solar panels on the rooftop of a home in Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s new climate targets must navigate geopolitical uncertainty [Commentary]

Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Pallavi Das 20 Oct 2026
A spintail devil ray. Representative image by Julien Renoult via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Small-scale fisheries a big threat to rays

Rupsy Khurana 19 Oct 2026

As the Ganga treaty nears expiry, renewed concerns over water sharing arise

Umesh Kumar Ray 16 Oct 2026

Light may influence morning basking behaviour in captive gharials

Lekha Bandopadhyay 16 Oct 2026
Canadian horseweed or Erigeron canadensis photographed in North America. Image by Aaron Volkening via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Invaders get better at competition in introduced ranges: Study

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2026
People cover their ears during a loudspeaker competition at a fair in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in 2011. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Noise pollution is a public health risk that’s hard to measure and monitor

Disha Shetty 15 Oct 2026
A sloth bear in Daroji Sloth Bear Sanctuary. Image by Bikash Das via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

The bear that evolved to hunt ants

Team Mongabay-India 14 Oct 2026
A fish swims through bleached coral reefs in Caribbean waters near Panama in August this year. Representative image. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

As El Niño strengthens, coral reefs face narrow windows for recovery

Max Martin 9 Oct 2026
Baby Titus inside a neighbour's house that has been wrecked by floods. Image by Arathi M.R.

The emotional cost of displacement

Arathi M.R. 9 Oct 2026
A woman wades through floodwaters to collect drinking water near her submerged house in Jorhat, Assam in August 2026. (AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)

A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Rupsy Khurana 8 Oct 2026
A coal mine in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Representative image by Vikash Singh via Pexels.

India’s coking coal push needs a methane plan [Commentary]

Purva Jain, Saumya Nautiyal 29 Sep 2026
Fishermen at work in Kochi, Kerala. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

El Niño, the monsoon, and the confusion of Kerala’s fishers [Commentary]

John Kurien 25 Sep 2026
A tiger marks its scent by spraying urine on a tree in Kanha National Park. Image by David V. Raju via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Odours offer new clues in monitoring big cats

Sneha Mahale 24 Sep 2026
A snow leopard in Kaza, Himachal Pradesh. Image by Bharath Kumar Venkatesh via Pexels.

The ghost of the mountains

Team Mongabay-India 23 Sep 2026
Concretising tree bases weakens them makes trees more vulnerable to falling during extreme weather events. A single week in July saw 902 trees being uprooted as rains fell. Image courtesy of Mumbai Citizen for Trees.

As city trees fall, experts point to poor planning and civic apathy

Esha Lohia 23 Sep 2026