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A government vehicle sprinkles water to control air pollution in New Delhi. Representative image. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Monitoring India’s clean air programme needs reimagining, suggests analysis

Simrin Sirur 14 Jan 2026
Citizens protest for action against air pollution in New Delhi in November 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

What India can learn from China’s approach to improving air quality [Commentary]

Tanushree Ganguly 14 Jan 2026

Celebrating the life and work of Madhav Gadgil

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 13 Jan 2026
A blood sample is collected from a diabetic patient a health camp in Kolkata, West Bengal. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)

Older diabetics at risk of developing cardiovascular disease from air pollution

Simrin Sirur 13 Jan 2026
A highway being constructed on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Ministry changes land acquisition requirements for select projects seeking clearance

Simrin Sirur 12 Jan 2026

A rural jobs law without a guarantee

Kundan Pandey 9 Jan 2026

Disease-carrying microplastics in the air we breathe

Ravleen Kaur 6 Jan 2026

New Seeds Bill draft promises quality reform, critics question its farmer focus

Nikhil Sreekandan 6 Jan 2026

India’s long search for a fair seed law remains unfinished [Commentary]

Sridhar Radhakrishnan 5 Jan 2026
P.V. Shivaprasad. Image by Sharmila Vaidyanathan.

P.V. Shivaprasad talks about rice, food security and his fascination with plants [Interview]

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Jan 2026

New species from the deep oceans and high mountains

Team Mongabay-India 31 Dec 2025

Tracing the evolving landscape of green jobs in 2025

Aditi Tandon 30 Dec 2025
A woman looks at a coal plant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

The climate finance numbers did not add up in 2025

Kundan Pandey 29 Dec 2025
Journalists Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj on the set of Walking Against the Heat, a film produced as part of the Video Reporting Opportunity by All Living Things Environment Film Festival and Mongabay-India. Image courtesy of Aishwarya Mohanty and Divya Vilvaraj.

Taking environmental storytelling beyond the screen in 2025

Sandhya Sekar 26 Dec 2025
A woman carries water collected from a public tap during the summer on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

Climate action cooled as heat surged in 2025 [Editor’s Review]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 25 Dec 2025
Community tourism inside Manas National Park, Assam. India’s long-standing forest decentralisation framework, built around Joint Forest Management and Community Forest Resource Rights committees, provides existing institutional infrastructure. Image by Ishan Kukreti.

Forest finance and the challenges money cannot fix [Commentary]

Ishan Kukreti 24 Dec 2025

Climate change shaped primate populations in northeast India

Anusha Krishnan 23 Dec 2025
Polluted river in an Indian city. Image by Jan jörg via Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Over 5,000 cases pending in India’s green tribunal, shows data

Simrin Sirur 22 Dec 2025
Fish vendors at a market in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Image by Rajesh Pamnani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

India’s fisheries budget misses the ocean for the fish [Commentary]

Ajay Sawant 22 Dec 2025
Workers desilt a village pond in Asir village, Sirsa district, Haryana, under MGNREGA, now replaced by the VB–G RAM G Act, 2025. Image by Mulkh Singh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

New rural jobs law replaces MGNREGA

Kundan Pandey 22 Dec 2025