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Painted storks in Kazhuveli. Photo by Bupesh Gupta.

[Commentary] Tamil Nadu needs an innovative wetland conservation strategy starting with Kazhuveli

Kannan Vaithianathan 12 Jan 2023
Wet fields and destroyed fields post heavy rainfalls. Photo by Alexy Thiyam.

Manipur farmers blame institutional failures for low yield and demand compensation

Donald Takhell 6 Jan 2023

Countries resolve to protect cetaceans from marine plastic pollution

Sharada Balasubramanian 30 Dec 2022

Editor’s review 2022: A warmer Arabian Sea, energy transition and a search for economic value

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 24 Dec 2022

[Commentary] Lifestyle For Environment is a noble concept, but needs a holistic approach

Dipak Anand, G.V. Gopi 18 Nov 2022
Chennai city flooded after Cyclone Nivar in 2020.

[Explainer] What is Loss and Damage?

Mahima Jain 31 Oct 2022

Deep-sea mining efforts gear up to meet clean energy demands amid concerns

Priyanka Shankar 26 Oct 2022
Barnamali Malik along with other fishermen prepares to venture into the Kharasrota river to catch fish. They returned home empty handed after a seven-hour long sail. Photo by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Illegal fish poisoning threatens traditional fishers in Odisha; authorities say no complaints since 2020

Aishwarya Mohanty 6 Oct 2022
Barasingha stags in Kanha National Park. Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun/ Wikimedia Commons.

[Commentary] India’s wildlife conservation journey has had great strides and many hurdles

Usha Rai 28 Sep 2022
Fishing on the Teesta River in Bangladesh

Experts call for more effective water sharing agreements between India and Bangladesh

Abu Siddique 27 Sep 2022

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Clean-washing by dams?

Mayank Aggarwal, Kartik Chandramouli 13 Aug 2022

Amid challenges, India announces new climate goals with updated NDCs

Manish Kumar 12 Aug 2022

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 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
A protest by environmentalists in Colombo.

Environmental policy failures contributed to Sri Lanka’s people power revolution

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2022
Authorities in Kashmir, over the years, have been advising farmers to shift to alternate crops. Photo by Umer Asif.

Dual threat of drought-like conditions and flash floods puts Kashmir Valley’s food security at risk

Zubair Amin 12 Jul 2022

[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022
The new development plan of Shimla was meant to address the expansion needs of the city as well as growing ecological challenges besides ensuring the city’s sustainable growth. Photo by Priyanka Shankar/Mongabay.

Is Shimla’s first major development plan in 43 years a lost opportunity?

Vivek Gupta 24 Jun 2022
The Suraha Tal Lake is the largest floodplain lake in the Ballia district. Jananayak Chandrashekhar University is situated within the Jai Prakash Narayan (Suraha Tal) Bird Sanctuary. Photo- Ballia district administration

A bird sanctuary’s survival is being threatened in Uttar Pradesh

Mayank Aggarwal 20 May 2022