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A biodiversity awareness session with devotees at Mahakumbh Mela, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Image © Anshul Bhawsar.

Education is a powerful tool for biodiversity conservation [Commentary]

Nidhi Singh, Sangeeta Angom 9 Jun 2025
General view of the motorcoach ready for service — First GIPR EMU, 1924. Image courtesy of Central Railway.

The railway journey to net zero began a century ago, but coal slows it down

Esha Lohia 6 Jun 2025

As a treaty breaks, the Indus dolphin faces a different kind of battle [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 5 Jun 2025
Coffee and tea agroforests in the Anamalai Hills, with the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in the background. Image by Pooja Choksi.

How trees outside forests impact human well-being

Aisiri Amin 5 Jun 2025

Sexing by sound: How deconstructed sarus crane duets could help scientists

Kartik Chandramouli 4 Jun 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Sandhya Sekar on how Mongabay India took root [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Image by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom [Interview]

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 2025
A tiger in Ranthambhore. Image by Astajyoti1 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A tireless voice for tigers and nature conservation [Obituary]

Usha Rai 3 Jun 2025
Vultures feed on a carcass in northern India. Image by Ron Knight via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Vulture conservation needs more than drug bans

Gowthami Subramaniam 3 Jun 2025

India releases genome-edited rice, draws both applause and alarm

Arathi Menon 2 Jun 2025
Valmik Thapar speaks at the Sanctuary Wildlife Awards held by in Mumbai. Image courtesy of Sanctuary Nature Foundation.

Celebrated tiger conservationist Valmik Thapar dies at 73

Divya Kilikar 2 Jun 2025
A thermal power plant in Nagpur. The draft taxonomy calls for strategic investments in Advanced Ultra Super Critical plants to improve efficiency. Image by Yann Forget via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Coal’s inclusion in India’s draft climate finance taxonomy raises questions

Kundan Pandey 30 May 2025
A thermal power station in Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh. Image by Jay.Jarosz via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Blended finance can help power India’s climate future [Commentary]

Suresh Seshadri 28 May 2025
Women of the Mannan tribe in Kerala fishing. The tribal affairs ministry requires all states and union territories to map potential forest lands that fall within the purview of the Forest Rights Act. Image by Nebu George via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What encroachment into forest lands means [Commentary]

C. R. Bijoy 26 May 2025
Radheshyam Bishnoi examines a spiny-tailed lizard burrow in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The burrow has been dug out by poachers. Image by Sneha Richhariya.

Radheshyam Bishnoi, defender of wildlife in Thar, ‘gone too soon’ [Obituary]

Azera Parveen Rahman 26 May 2025
Wind turbines in Gujarat. Without a clear understanding of what constitutes climate adaptation, measuring its impact is a challenge. Image by Vinayaraj via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Research into climate adaptation in India is woefully inadequate, says review

Simrin Sirur 23 May 2025
Mango trees planted in Bagepalli, Karnataka. Based on five tree-planting projects across 21,767 farmer plots, tree cover increased by 48% in participating plots compared to a 26% increase in non-participating plots. Image by Shivani Agarwal.

Community buy-in, economic gains drive voluntary carbon market success

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 23 May 2025
Between 2000 and 2019, India experienced 321 natural disasters that led to over 70,000 deaths and affected approximately one billion people. Image by Priyanka Vaderu.

An evolving workforce around disaster management

Sejal Mehta and Aditi Tandon 22 May 2025
Saplings of the genus Beilschmiedia. As many nurseries still struggle to supply adequate stocks of native plants, this database can help plan large-scale ecological restoration. Image by Vaishnavi Suresh.

Native plant germination database sows seeds of change

Sneha Mahale 21 May 2025
Kapu beach in Udupi, Karnataka. Image by Subhashish Panigrahi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

India’s coastline is longer than previously thought

Simrin Sirur 20 May 2025