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Saplings being carried for plantation. Image by Pushpendra Rana.

A machine learning-powered chatbot to guide tree plantation in the Himalayas

Nikhil Sreekandan 16 Jul 2026
A pod of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins photographed from above off the Sindhudurg-Goa coast. Image by Imran Samad.

Finless porpoises are disappearing before they are counted

Mansab Sayyad 16 Jul 2026
A large container ship at Vizhinjam port in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Government proposes increasing clearance validity for ports and harbours

Simrin Sirur 15 Jul 2026
Excavators clear mud and debris from the Kalladi landslide site as search and recovery operations continue along the Meenakshi river. Image by Ajay Ghosh S.

Tunnel landslide raises fresh questions over mountain development

K.A. Shaji 14 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
An elderly woman suffering from a heat-related ailment is brought to an overcrowded government district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh in 2023. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

India’s heat response is missing public health logic [Commentary]

Purvi Patel 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
Workers use machinery to fell trees in Aarey colony, amid protests in Mumbai. Representative image. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Petition accuses Wildlife Board Committee of rubber-stamping diversions with ‘no application of mind’

Simrin Sirur 10 Jul 2026
Tso Moriri lake during the summer, when the lake thaws and vegetation grows. Image by Raghavan37 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

In high altitude soils, microbes may be limiting the warming they trigger

Lekha Bandopadhyay 10 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 fisherman at work at the Loktak Lake. Image by R.K. Neetu Sana.

Warming lake threatens fish habitats and the wetland economy

Barasha Das 7 Jul 2026
Aquatic plants dominate the water surface of Dal Lake. Image by Akhil Paul.

Scientists test turning aquatic weeds into liquid fertilisers

Hirra Azmat 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
A waste worker segregates items at the edge during a fire at the Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Burning waste is a waste of money

Ravleen Kaur 2 Jul 2026
Earth-moving equipment clears vegetation along the Central Ridge in Delhi. Image by Pradip Krishen.

Delhi witnesses a travesty of ecological restoration [Commentary]

Ankila Hiremath, Vikram Iyer 1 Jul 2026
A forest fire rages during the summer in Dharmshala, Himachal Pradesh in 2022. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia, file)

Rising temperatures, not just human activity, drives Himalayan forest fires

Simrin Sirur 25 Jun 2026
A labourer prepares steel furniture at a factory. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Financing the green shift remains a hurdle for steel MSMEs

Rohini Krishnamurthy 24 Jun 2026
A construction labourer at work at the rehabilitation township. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Landslide survivors wait for a place to call home

Simrin Sirur 17 Jun 2026

A social worker’s solo endeavour to track fluorosis and groundwater contamination

Biswajit Das, Nabarun Guha 16 Jun 2026
Dharani Saikia speaks with a person affected by fluorosis. Image by Nabarun Guha.

In rural Assam, fluoride in groundwater is bending bones

Nabarun Guha 16 Jun 2026