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A shepherd grazes her sheep near a solar power plant in Pavagada Tumkur district, Karnataka. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

States hold the key to India’s energy transition [Commentary]

Tanya Rana, Ruchita Shah 6 May 2026

A pollinator vital to food and farming

Team Mongabay-India 6 May 2026
A camera trap catches an image of a fishing cat with its kitten in Kaziranga. Image courtesy of Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve.

Kaziranga hosts a healthy population of fishing cats, finds survey

Nabarun Guha 5 May 2026
Labourers sleep on a road median in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the summer of 2024. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s heat crisis is a labour, health and finance challenge, says white paper

Manish Chandra Mishra 5 May 2026
Volunteers remove water logging in potholes after heavy rain in Kochi, Kerala, in 2022. (AP Photo/ R S Iyer)

Better urban services require citizen participation [Commentary]

Katie Pyle, Neha Malhotra Singh 4 May 2026
The drying Tunga River in Karnataka during summer. Representative image by Lenin Moorthy via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Riverine heatwaves are on the rise

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 4 May 2026

Could wildfires in Canada have affected India’s monsoon? New research suggests it’s possible

Simrin Sirur 1 May 2026
Sub-tropical pine forests in Himachal Pradesh. Image by Meenakshi Kapoor.

Rules for forest conservation may facilitate diversions [Analysis]

Meenakshi Kapoor 30 Apr 2026

Himalayan salamander conservationist wins award for grassroots protection of the amphibian

Arathi Menon 30 Apr 2026

Indian skimmer conservationist wins award for community conservation model

Aditi Tandon 30 Apr 2026
A natural farming practitioner works at her farm in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh. The National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture frames soil health, water-use efficiency, and biodiversity conservation as agricultural priorities. Representative image. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s farms do ecological work that no policy has accounted [Commentary]

Deepanjana Saha, Prasanna N.S., G. Ravikanth 29 Apr 2026
Amur falcon. Image by Touhid biplob via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The bird of prey that crosses continents

Team Mongabay-India 29 Apr 2026
Trees at a park in Kochi, Kerala. Image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

New database captures urban tree diversity

Simrin Sirur 27 Apr 2026

Birds are colliding with glass. Few in India are counting.

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Apr 2026
Striped hyenas face threats like habitat loss and degradation, prey depletion, human-wildlife conflict, direct persecution and illegal trade. Image by Manish Kumar Chattopadhyay.

Striped hyena gets stronger global protection

Manish Chandra Mishra 22 Apr 2026
Günther's Indian gecko. Image by Vengolis via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Small creatures, big adaptations

Team Mongabay-India 22 Apr 2026

Plugging data gaps in global plant diversity using citizen science

Anusha Krishnan 22 Apr 2026
A woman balances a water can on her head as people collect water from a mobile water tanker in drought-stressed New Delhi. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Urban finance reforms gather pace, but key gaps persist [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 21 Apr 2026
Melting glaciers in Uttarakhand. Global warming and melting glaciers are releasing antibiotic resistance genes into our environments. Image by Sharada Prasad via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Ancient glaciers reveal the roots of antimicrobial resistance

Nupur Fangaria 21 Apr 2026
A greater yellow house bat in Dehradun. Image by Rohit Chakravarty.

Wind power’s ecological costs on bats

Aisiri Amin 20 Apr 2026