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The state of India’s forests: Losing forests, gaining plantations

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Jan 2022
Mining machinery at a Goa mine brought to a halt by Supreme Court of India’s February 2018 judgment. Photo by Meera Mohanty/Mongabay.

Mining on the shifty sands of Goan politics

Meera Mohanty 20 Jan 2022

Snakes in Bengaluru city

Almaas Masood 19 Jan 2022

Transforming a ghost village with hill-centric livelihood and tourism opportunities

Archana Singh 18 Jan 2022
Zamil Ahmed dresses in a black fur costume in absence of bear. Photo by Madhav Sharma

Two sides of the wildlife law: Animals protected but Kalandar tribe trying to make ends meet

Madhav Sharma 17 Jan 2022

Return of the tiger at West Bengal’s Buxa tiger reserve

Nabarun Guha 13 Jan 2022

[Book Review] ‘Greta Calling’ captures fear and grit with painstaking detail

Renuka Kulkarni 12 Jan 2022

Newly declared dugong conservation reserve will help protect marine biodiversity

K.A. Shaji 12 Jan 2022
Banner image: The PPSP dams located amidst densely forested hills. Photo by Aniket Bhattacharya.

Purulia pumped storage project shows why pumped hydropower may not be clean

Aritra Bhattacharya 11 Jan 2022

Tackling the integrated challenge of plastic pollution and climate change

Devayani Khare 11 Jan 2022

[Commentary] To address climate change, grow and restore soil, not trees

G. Ravikanth, P. Srinivas Vasu, Veena Srinivasan 10 Jan 2022

Himalayan ecosystem under threat with China’s building spree in Nepal

Johan Augustin 10 Jan 2022

Artificial nests for barn owls help farmers befriend these natural rodent killers

Kasturi Das 7 Jan 2022
Rose Eduoard or the panneer rose.

[Commentary] Tracing the history, portrait and uses of the panneer rose

Shobha Menon 5 Jan 2022

Hope in the time of a pandemic: Positive news from 2021

Aditi Tandon 3 Jan 2022
Pokkudan's children revived the defunct Kallen Pokkudan Mangrove Trust in recent months, formed by their father in 2013 to impart mangrove conservation literacy to society. Photo by Bhavapriya JU.

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 31 Dec 2021

[Explainer] The cost of plastic waste

Anusha Krishnan 30 Dec 2021

Chennai’s fight to preserve its wetlands and stay above water

Nina Varghese 29 Dec 2021

Deepen understanding of Indian mangrove ecosystems, says mangrove scientist

Sahana Ghosh 28 Dec 2021

Crocodiles, (largest) coal mine and (ignored) carbon sink: Multimedia stories we told in 2021

Kartik Chandramouli 27 Dec 2021