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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
Rains in central India. Representative image by Ms Sarah Welch via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

El Niño brings drought and extreme rain together

Kundan Pandey 22 Sep 2026

Community-based mangrove monitoring should compliment satellite data [Commentary]

Utchimahali Mariappan 22 Sep 2026
Pollution chokes the perennial Rispana river which flows through Dehradun. Image by Kenyum Bagra.

Monsoon amplifies antibiotic resistance gene levels in river water used by residents

Lekha Bandopadhyay 21 Sep 2026
Geeta Devi mud house remains partially submerged in flood water. She worries how long it would hold. Image by Ashwini Kumar Shukla.

Floods affect millions in Bihar despite rainfall deficit

Ashwini Kumar Shukla 18 Sep 2026

As tigers spill beyond reserves, India rethinks conservation

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026
A Himalayan snowcock. Image courtesy of Himachal Pradesh Forest Department and Nature Conservation Foundation.

High-altitude bird hotspots remain outside protected areas

Kasturi Das 17 Sep 2026

People and the politics of contest, construction and compensation

Satish Bhartiya 16 Sep 2026

The crane that loves a duet

Team Mongabay-India 16 Sep 2026

Researchers rediscover an endemic plant after 180 years

Nabarun Guha 14 Sep 2026
The construction site of the Hebbal short tunnel. Image by Sohel Sarkar.

Bengaluru’s Hebbal tunnel raises concerns about groundwater and flooding

Sohel Sarkar 11 Sep 2026
A coal block in Hasdeo. Even today, approximately 75% of India’s total energy consumption is met by coal-based thermal power plants. Image by Alok Prakash Putul/Mongabay.

Centre tightens grip over mineral taxation, states cry foul

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2026

Krishna AchutaRao, climate scientist who pioneered attribution research in India, dies at 62 [Obituary]

Simrin Sirur 10 Sep 2026