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A family moving to a safe place in Joshmanth. As of January 18,849 houses were damaged and 838 people shifted to safer places. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

46 years on, there is mountain of studies but Joshimath is still sinking

Shailesh Shrivastava 19 Jan 2023
A fisher harvesting seaweed in the Philippines.

Biodiversity, human rights safeguards are crucial to nature-based solutions, say critics

Sahana Ghosh 19 Jan 2023
A fisherwoman pulling up her Chinese net using the traditional Khu-il Chingba method in front of a homestay. Photo by Victor Ningthoujam.

[Editorial] Five years of Mongabay-India

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Jan 2023
Image shows a room full of people at a conference

Nations adopt Global Biodiversity Framework amid concerns over watered-down targets

Sahana Ghosh, Latoya Abulu 20 Dec 2022
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Rajasthan is getting wetter and it’s not good news for the desert ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Oct 2022

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project

T. Ramachandran 10 Oct 2022
Medicines

Humans are contaminating Earth’s waterways with medicines, pharmaceutical ingredients

Malavika Vyawahare 5 Oct 2022

All eyes on the next chapter: India prepares to host cheetahs after 70 years

Manish Chandra Mishra 16 Sep 2022
A thermal power plant in Haryana. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate action, pollution control needed to keep sulphur dioxide in check

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2022

In Odisha’s Mangalajodi wetland, youth strive to build a healthier ecosystem and generate livelihoods

Tazeen Qureshy 26 Aug 2022

Rethinking, recycling and re-loving: A peek into India’s circular fashion economy

Shilpa Raina 11 Aug 2022
A farmer and her water buffalo in a paddy field.

[Interview] Chukki Nanjundaswamy shares what it takes to train farmers in agroecology

Anna Lappé 8 Aug 2022
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

[Commentary] Resolving the conundrum on the precautionary principle

Kanika Jamwal, Aastha Kapoor 28 Jul 2022

Saffron, biodiversity and glaciers: Kashmir’s women scientists lead climate action

Hirra Azmat 26 Jul 2022
Electric scooters in the manufacturing process. One of the eight scenarios predicts 100 percent penetration of electric two-wheelers by 2027. Image by Gnoeee/Wikimedia commons

Report projects 100 percent electric two-wheeler penetration in India by 2027

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Jul 2022
The Nicobar crab-eating macaque is one of the major fauna of the Great Nicobar Island. Photo by Prasun Goswami/Wikimedia Commons.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island

Mayank Aggarwal 20 Jul 2022

An upcoming port in Karnataka is shrinking space for olive ridley turtles

Supriya Vohra 15 Jul 2022

A road for a port cuts through the livelihoods of fisherwomen in Uttara Kannada

Supriya Vohra 14 Jul 2022