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A popular snack in India, makhana, is the seed of a water lily species, Euryale ferox, found in south and east Asia. When harvested, it is actually a tough blackish…

In the last few decades, nature conservation across the world has increasingly relied on measuring the economic value of ecosystem services (ES) provided by nature, in a bid to highlight…

With the aim to incentivise sustainability and environmental protection, India's environment ministry has proposed a programme to enable individuals, organisations and industry generate “green credits” for voluntary activities deemed beneficial…

The loss of biodiversity coupled with climate change and rising pollution is placing us on the brink of a planetary collapse. In India the severity can be seen in our…

Environmental activists have raised concerns about the government’s Tawi riverfront development project in Jammu and Kashmir stating that it poses a threat to the environment, as the impacts of climate…

A team of researchers from the Department of Physics at IIT-Madras has developed a technology prototype to produce green hydrogen (GH2) from seawater in a simple and cost-effective manner. In…

Incidents of tiger deaths in Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in Goa, in 2020, was a trigger for environmentalists to refresh their long-pending demand for a tiger reserve in the coastal state.…

The Miyawaki forestry method follows the practice of cultivating fast-growing groves of native vegetation in an area lacking trees. While the method has found keen restorers all over the globe,…

In Assam, Bohag Bihu and the kopou phool — the Assamese new year and the foxtail orchid — have an intimate connection. The blooming of this beautiful, pinkish-purple orchid on…

In the recent months, the central government has introduced two policy measures to support the offshore wind sector, which generates electricity through wind farms in waterbodies, such as the sea. In…

Sabhalgarh Compartment 8, in the Haridwar forest division is known to the residents as Gaindi Khatta. This is a settlement of the Van Gujjar community, who have been relocated and…

This is the first in a three-part series, where Mongabay-India attempts to identify the reasons for stubble burning in central India, find out possible solutions to end stubble burning and…

Some residents of a village in Haryana are opposing the proposed construction of government buildings on forest lands, home to the iconic Salvadora trees. The villagers say it will hinder…

A new study by the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, found the first record of plastiglomerates in the Indian sub-continent on Aves Island in the Andaman archipelago.…

Consider this sentence: Many urban areas have depauperate flora and fauna due to anthropogenic disturbances. If we replace the words 'depauperate' with 'very few species', 'flora' with 'plants', 'fauna' with…

Mongabay-India, in collaboration with the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) is conducting a series of workshops on the intersection of journalism, environment and economics -- “Environmental Economics for Journalists”.…

While urban India generates 72,368 million litres (MLD) of sewage every day, only 28% is treated and reused. The remaining untreated wastewater is allowed to freely flow into groundwater, rivers…

Instead of building new coal-based thermal power plants, NTPC should acquire stranded thermal plants that will meet India's short-term energy security needs and will improve the balance sheet of lenders,…

A new study highlights the sparse understanding of stork species around the world and recommends a more robust scientific assessment of storks in the International Union for Conservation of Nature…

The geographical position of India is in the tropics. The sun shines brightly throughout the year, except for some days during the monsoon season. As per estimates, India gets around…