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Kumari Sahu from Patharra village in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district shares concerns about the ethanol plant. Image by Ayushi Sharma/Mongabay India.

Ethanol push sparks concerns about food security, environment and health

Ayushi Sharma 22 Aug 2025

Children face a disproportionate burden of environmental risks

Shweta Thakur Nanda 21 Aug 2025
Himalayan pine. Representative image by Wendy Cutler via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

Fallen pine needles could help India cut carbon emissions

Vandana K. 21 Aug 2025
Ground truthing exercises for forest degradation mapping, integrating field data with satellite-based analysis. Image courtesy of TERI

Global REDD+ standards fail local forests [Commentary]

Sayanta Ghosh, Jitendra Vir Sharma 20 Aug 2025
Yellow-browed bulbul specimens collected from the Nilgiri hills in the 1800s at the Natural History Museum at Tring, England. Image by Vijay Ramesh.

Old maps and dead birds reveal the story of grassland and bird decline in the Nilgiris

Kartik Chandramouli 19 Aug 2025
A man with a baby in his arms sat on the sculpture of Mother Earth, surrounded by broken plastic toys, bottles, and chairs scattered around. Every day, some more trash was added. Even as the man is seen thinking, Mother Earth, his own body, and the DNA helix above him, were all covered in plastic. Even as plastic has penetrated the foetus-symbolised by the DNA helix, the sea and the mountains, world leaders procrastinate to agree on a solution.

Global talks on plastic pollution end without a treaty

Ravleen Kaur 19 Aug 2025

World’s smallest wild cat recorded in West Bengal

Nabarun Guha 19 Aug 2025
Nyenchen Tanglha peak in central Tibet. Image by McKay Savage via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

The tectonic journey of the roof of the world [Commentary]

C.P. Rajendran 18 Aug 2025
A Hanuman langur leaps over tree tops in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, Karnataka. Image by Nikhil More via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Mewa Singh on chasing monkeys for over half a century [Interview]

Arathi Menon 18 Aug 2025

Teen from Odisha wins global Eco Hero award for preserving indigenous seeds

Simrin Sirur 15 Aug 2025

Tracking seasons through changing tree behaviour [Commentary]

Geetha Ramaswami 15 Aug 2025

South Africa to review cheetah translocation project before further exports

Simrin Sirur 14 Aug 2025
Workers install solar panels in Gujarat. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The price of going green is higher for the Global South

Kundan Pandey 14 Aug 2025
Striped tigers congregate in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Maharashtra. Image by Dr. Raju Kasambe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why are butterflies migrating across the Indian peninsula? [Explainer]

Sandhya Sekar 12 Aug 2025
A woman works at a coal depot in Ahmedabad in the summer of 2022, when heatwaves were scorching the country. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]

Sarthak Shukla, Siddharth Sareen 12 Aug 2025

Bundelkhand’s ground water levels are ‘safe,’ says water body

Simrin Sirur 11 Aug 2025
A pair of lion-tailed macaques engage in allogrooming. Image by UdayKiran28 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India’s ethology has grown, but not to its full potential [Commentary]

Raghavendra Gadagkar 11 Aug 2025
Sandesh Kadur. Image ©Robin Darius Conz/Felis Images.

Sandesh Kadur on documenting the shared wilderness in the Nilgiris [Interview]

Priyanka Shankar 8 Aug 2025

Milking natural coagulants to fix dairy dirt

Aisiri Amin 6 Aug 2025

A new analysis in a warming state links land use change to increasing heat

Simrin Sirur 5 Aug 2025