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The contaminated water from the wells. Photo by special arrangement.

In a Himachal village, people accuse a waste management plant for contaminating water

Kapil Kajal 1 Dec 2021

Solar power helps farmers irrigate fields in water-scarce Bastar

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 15 Nov 2021
Women-led group take care solar pumps after receiving them from the government. Photo by Srikant Chaudhary

Jharkhand’s solar pump scheme aims to improve lives of farmers by increasing irrigation potential

Srikant Chaudhary 4 Oct 2021

Stone mining in Brahmagiri mountains chips away at the Godavari River ecosystem

Vinaya Kurtkoti 29 Sep 2021

[Commentary] Transformative adaptation: Ways to improve India’s long-term food security

Parvathi Preethan and Namrata Ginoya 30 Aug 2021

Clean tap water mission in Puri hopes to replenish groundwater

Tazeen Qureshy 23 Aug 2021

Groundwater depletion in Haryana a cause of serious concern

Vivek Gupta 19 Jul 2021
Women farmers at work in their vegetable plots near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh, India. Photo by CIAT - NP Himachal Pradesh 68/Wikimedia Commons.

Increased farm work negatively impacts women’s nutrition: study

Sahana Ghosh 14 May 2021

Winter drought in Himachal impacts agriculture and drinking water supply

Vivek Gupta 26 Apr 2021

Eucalyptus plantations in Andhra Pradesh sway between economy and ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Apr 2021

Community restores grasslands in Lamkani, making the village drought-resilient

Vinaya Kurtkoti 8 Apr 2021

As depolluting Sutlej river delayed, impact on health continues

Vivek Gupta 7 Apr 2021

How did a once water-rich village in Goa become entirely dependent on tankers?

Supriya Vohra 30 Mar 2021
India’s growing demand for palm oil is linked to large scale deforestation for oil palm agriculture in Indonesia and Malaysia.

As India eyes domestic palm oil growth environmental concerns take a backseat

Kundan Pandey and Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2021

When an army of women came together to revive a river

Arathi Menon 23 Feb 2021

Saving Darbhanga’s wetlands from encroachment and apathy

Mohd Imran Khan 4 Nov 2020

How an engineer found his calling in conserving wetlands

Shweta Thakur Nanda 14 Oct 2020
Ragi saplings

The paradox of Chhattisgarh’s summer paddy: high-yielding but water-intensive

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Sep 2020

Water sustainability leads to better income for Jharkhand farmers

Gurvinder Singh 6 Jul 2020

Your Environment This Week: Yak exchange, flowers climbing up Himalayas, noise pollution fines

Team Mongabay 3 Jul 2020