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The wayfaring musician of West Bengal, who protects the environment

Tazeen Qureshy 24 Jan 2022
Mining machinery at a Goa mine brought to a halt by Supreme Court of India’s February 2018 judgment. Photo by Meera Mohanty/Mongabay.

Mining on the shifty sands of Goan politics

Meera Mohanty 20 Jan 2022

[Commentary] To address climate change, grow and restore soil, not trees

G. Ravikanth, P. Srinivas Vasu, Veena Srinivasan 10 Jan 2022

Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022
Pokkudan's children revived the defunct Kallen Pokkudan Mangrove Trust in recent months, formed by their father in 2013 to impart mangrove conservation literacy to society. Photo by Bhavapriya JU.

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 31 Dec 2021
Solar energy-powered water pump in a field. Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan for IWMI/ Flickr.

Addressing challenges in food systems with climate-smart agriculture

Priyanka Shankar, Sahana Ghosh 22 Dec 2021

Lack of diverse, good-quality seeds curb tree-planting goals and reforestation plans

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 15 Dec 2021
Cormorant from Kole WetLands ,Thrissur, Kerala. Photo by Manoj K/Wikimedia Commons.

Solving multiple challenges while considering biodiversity and human rights

Sahana Ghosh 13 Dec 2021

New study traces the evolution of South Asia’s bulbuls to other parts of Asia and even Africa

Malaka Rodrigo 10 Dec 2021

Goa wants to restart mining. What does Goa’s youth want?

Supriya Vohra 10 Dec 2021
In the coal mining areas, thousands depend on the coal ecosystem directly or indirectly for their livelihood. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary/Mongabay.

India’s coal transition likely to be a “messy and complicated exercise”

Mayank Aggarwal 8 Dec 2021

Scientists describe a new Himalayan snake species found via Instagram

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2021

NGT directs NHAI to budget for restoring the environment damaged on the Udhampur-Banihal highway

Bivek Mathur 24 Nov 2021

Extreme weather events and agriculture: what are the impacts and what’s in store?

Aathira Perinchery 22 Nov 2021

Glasgow summit delivers discounted dreams, but action and money missing

Soumya Sarkar 15 Nov 2021

India proposes guidelines for decommissioning coal-based power plants

Mayank Aggarwal 11 Nov 2021

High-flying dragons: how the globe skimmer migrates across the Indian Ocean

Neha Jain 10 Nov 2021

[Analysis] Will Glasgow be just another talk shop while climate crisis worsens?

Soumya Sarkar 8 Nov 2021

India to seek billion-dollar assistance from the World Bank for just transition programme

Mayank Aggarwal 3 Nov 2021
A drought affected field in Ladakh. Many states in India are the most vulnerable to extreme climate events such as floods, droughts and cyclones, possibly brought on by climate change. Photo by Christopher Michel/Wikimedia commons

Empty pledges in Glasgow won’t cool down an overheated planet

Soumya Sarkar 29 Oct 2021