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Water from the taps run yellow in Nashik. Image by Esha Lohia.

Chromium in water upends life in an industrial neighbourhood

Esha Lohia 28 Oct 2026
People cover their ears during a loudspeaker competition at a fair in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in 2011. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Noise pollution is a public health risk that’s hard to measure and monitor

Disha Shetty 15 Oct 2026
Protests against the SUMP in Upper Siang held last week. Image by special arrangement.

Assembly ban imposed in Upper Siang, protesters detained under UAPA

Simrin Sirur 14 Oct 2026
Baby Titus inside a neighbour's house that has been wrecked by floods. Image by Arathi M.R.

The emotional cost of displacement

Arathi M.R. 9 Oct 2026
A woman wades through floodwaters to collect drinking water near her submerged house in Jorhat, Assam in August 2026. (AP Photo/Parikhit Saikia)

A changing climate is reshaping India’s infectious disease risks

Rupsy Khurana 8 Oct 2026

People and the politics of contest, construction and compensation

Satish Bhartiya 16 Sep 2026
Survivors walk past a house damaged by flash floods on the banks of Trishuli river in Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal on September 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Why is disaster risk increasing in the Himalayas? [Explainer]

Max Martin 8 Sep 2026
A tiger in Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, from where tigers disperse to Kawal Tiger Reserve. Image by A.J.T Johnsingh, WWF-India & NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The tiger reserve with abundant prey but no resident tigers

Nivedhika Krishnan 8 Sep 2026

Reduced exposure to nature is linked to immune system diseases [Commentary]

Irfan Shakeer, Ayisha Farseena 3 Sep 2026
A 24-year-old well in Ambalappuzha left contaminated with plastic waste. Image by Anjana V.

Groundwater study flags localised heavy metal concerns in a coastal district

Anjana V. 31 Aug 2026
A man wades through floodwaters after days of torrential rains in Kampur, Assam in June 2025. (AP Photo)

Going beyond the annual flood response with district level plans [Commentary]

Promit Mookherjee 27 Aug 2026
Residents sleep on the roof of their home near Versova beach to escape the indoor heat as humid conditions persist amid a delayed monsoon in Mumbai, Maharashtra in June this year. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Rising temperatures could intensify humid heat during India’s monsoon

Nivedhika Krishnan 20 Aug 2026
A mountain of waste generated from coal mining stands in the Kathara area of Bokaro district, Jharkhand. Image by Kundan Pandey/Mongabay.

The mine closes but the transition is far from over

Kundan Pandey 17 Aug 2026
Dasharam Thakre, a grazer from Borghundi village in Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. Thakre plays an important role in locating dead cattle and facilitating relief. Image by Ravin Mahle.

As herders quit, the skills that helped human-tiger coexistence, disappear [Commentary]

Varun Sharma 10 Aug 2026
A woman cools herself off with an ice pack during a heat wave in Banda, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Heatwaves and lightning notified as national disasters, government says

Simrin Sirur 7 Aug 2026

Mumbai’s informal settlements struggle to power their homes

Rhea Arora 5 Aug 2026
The devastating impacts of the famine on people in then Bellary district, Madras, illustrated for The Graphic (a British weekly newspaper) published on October 6, 1877. Illustration by Horace Harral courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Public Domain.

Volcanoes, El Niño and colonial policies fuelled two deadly famines in India

Karthik Vinod 30 Jul 2026
Residential settlements near Howrah railway station in West Bengal. Image by Ravi Dwivedi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India has a railway noise problem but its health impacts are poorly understood

Rohan Singh 29 Jul 2026
A sugarcane field in Narsinghpur, Madhya Pradesh. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay.

India’s ethanol push moves from the pump to the field, raising water and food questions

Manish Chandra Mishra 28 Jul 2026
Cracks appear in Basant Dangi's field in Pathalgada village, where he normally grows a paddy nursery. Image by Vishal Kumar Jain.

Low rainfall delays paddy farming signalling El Niño-induced drought

Vishal Kumar Jain 27 Jul 2026