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A regional hub in the Himalayas to reduce risks from climate-induced disasters

Nidhi Jamwal 14 Jan 2025

[Book review] A reality check on efforts to decentralise natural resource governance

Kundan Pandey 10 Jan 2025

Your Environment This Week: Dung beetles, City dwelling urban jackals and Frogs in fields

Team Mongabay India 20 Dec 2024

[Commentary] Holding financiers accountable for bankrolling big hydro projects

Amitanshu Verma 4 Dec 2024

How flood protection structures heighten flood vulnerability

Simrin Sirur 29 Nov 2024

Silt, a major reason for Kosi river’s flooding

Rahul Singh 25 Nov 2024

Island villages between Kosi embankments neglected after Bihar floods

Rahul Singh 7 Nov 2024
Headmaster Basu Biswas enters Alichuck Lower Primary School a day after heavy rain lightly flooded the school grounds. Image by Ananya Chetia.

Your Environment This Week: Recycling in India, Flood-affected schools, Andaman’s mangroves

Team Mongabay India 7 Oct 2024
Flooded school campus. Image by Ananya Chetia.

When books sink underwater in Assam

Ananya Chetia 4 Oct 2024

Lesson from Wayanad: State needs disaster mitigation rather than a disaster management strategy

Saritha S. Balan 2 Aug 2024

Flood risk study of Himalayan valley highlights unregulated tourism as a cause

Arathi Menon 29 Jul 2024

Lives of thousands of families hang in the balance as the water level of Sardar Sarovar dam is altered

Rahul Singh 9 Jul 2024
A road in Sangli district, a few days after the heavy rain in 2019. Image by Varsha Deshpande via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed).

The forgotten victims of Maharashtra’s 2019 floods

Apsara Aga 6 Jun 2024
Manjubai extracts seeds from the musk melon fruit for further processing Image by Aishwarya Mohanty.

Rising above the waters with musk melon

Aishwarya Mohanty 4 Jun 2024

Assessing coastal disaster risks in central Kerala

Simrin Sirur 10 May 2024

Extreme rainfall events quadrupled in Meghalaya due to climate change, says study

Simrin Sirur 20 Mar 2024

How the Sikkim flood drowned farming and fishing opportunities in northern West Bengal

Arunima Kar 1 Mar 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024

No early warning system and insufficient dam safety turned Sikkim flood deadly

Simrin Sirur 9 Oct 2023

Using social media images to better respond to disasters

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2023