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Centre could take charge when state environmental authorities are non-functional

Simrin Sirur 20 Mar 2026
People queue up to refill cylinders during the LPG shortage in March 2026. Image by Nizil Shah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

LPG supply shock exposes fragility of India’s clean cooking strategy

Simrin Sirur 19 Mar 2026
A student identifies her neighbourhood in Jakkur at the public consultations for the Ward-level Climate Action Plan in Bengaluru. Image by Mahima Jain.

Ward-level plans bring climate action closer to communities

Mahima Jain 18 Mar 2026
A lesser flamingo in Mumbai. Image by Sujai.rajapaul via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

A vibrant pink wetland visitor

Team Mongabay-India 18 Mar 2026
A municipal worker fumigates a densely populated area in New Delhi. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Chronic exposure to air pollution can influence dengue severity, study finds

Lekha Bandopadhyay 18 Mar 2026

Study suggests air pollution may harbour drug-resistant bacteria

Aisiri Amin 17 Mar 2026
Abscondita perplexa. Image by Parvez.

India’s first firefly checklist records 92 species, reveals high endemism

Arathi Menon 12 Mar 2026

Municipal bonds need more than incentives to fund India’s cities [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 11 Mar 2026

A predator in the grasslands

Team Mongabay-India 11 Mar 2026
Researcher Vedant Patil documents informal milk traders in western Uttar Pradesh, showing how heat stress has reduced milk yields and affected their livelihoods. Image courtesy of Sustaina India.

Artists trace the journey of food, environment and livelihoods

Shilpa Raina 10 Mar 2026

Why India’s ₹561 billion drainage push must consider a street-nallah-lake network [Commentary]

Surjyatapa Ray 9 Mar 2026
A school girl wearing a face mask walks across a foot over bridge amidst smog in New Delhi in November, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Pollution concentrations soar higher above ground during haze

Manish Chandra Mishra 3 Mar 2026

The world’s longest venomous snake

Team Mongabay-India 3 Mar 2026
A spotted owlet at IIHS Kengeri campus, Bengaluru. Image by Jagdish Krishnaswamy.

Study finds urban nature-based solutions overlook biodiversity

Aisiri Amin 2 Mar 2026
Workers in a manufacturing unit make leather footwear in Agra, Uttar Pradesha. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The environmental price of India’s new trade push [Commentary]

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 27 Feb 2026
A dung beetle in the Thar desert. Image by Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

What wild poop can teach children about ecology [Book review]

Kasturi Das 25 Feb 2026

A zoonotic disease in the Himalayas that needs a closer look [Commentary]

Saurabh Gurung, Sunita Pradhan 23 Feb 2026

How frequent forest fires can lead to ecosystem changes

T. V. Padma 23 Feb 2026
Coffee plant in Meghamalai. Image by Mirthyu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate change adds 30 extreme-heat days a year to India’s coffee farms

Manish Chandra Mishra 23 Feb 2026
A waste picker drinks water while working during a heat wave at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Cities may heat up disproportionately faster than rural neighbours, even at 2°C warming

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 Feb 2026