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

Simrin Sirur 15 Aug 2025
Tubers on display at the Nilgiris Earth Festival. Image by Anokha Venugopal/Keystone Foundation.

Tubers and tribals face the climate test

Jeyanthi R. 13 Aug 2025

India’s forest communities hold the climate solutions we overlook [Commentary]

Saurabh Purohit, Y.D. Imran Khan 7 Jul 2025
The marshes of Tso Kar in the Changthang Plateau of Ladakh. The implementation of access and benefit sharing in remote regions is already compromised by the topography and scarcity of resources, and further at risk by the ABS regime. Image by Esha Joshi.

Access and benefit sharing regulations impinge on the rights of local communities [Commentary]

Esha Joshi, Neema P. Broome 16 Jun 2025

New regulations define access-benefit sharing from biological resources

Simrin Sirur 12 Jun 2025

Dinesh Holla on trekking the Western Ghats for ecological awareness [Interview]

Shradha Triveni 12 Jun 2025
improved cooking stove in a Lepcha house

Bridging tradition and conservation with improved cooking stoves in Lepcha homes [Commentary]

Abishek Pradhan 3 Mar 2025
Controlled burning in Dibang Valley district, Arunachal Pradesh

Wildfires and the forgotten science of community forest management [Commentary]

Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Pranab R. Choudhury 25 Feb 2025

Reviving the culinary heritage of the Monpas

Barasha Das 21 Jan 2025

Relocating villages in core tiger areas based on science

Nikhil Sreekandan 7 Jan 2025

Mongabay India in 2024: Reaching out beyond the echo chamber

Mongabay India 25 Dec 2024

[Commentary] Community-based conservation can help achieve 30×30 biodiversity target

Pijush Kumar Dutta 20 Dec 2024

How a smoked fish tradition sustains an ethnic group in Bhutan

Choki Wangmo 2 Dec 2024

Matsyanyaya: A journey through India’s landscapes swallowed by urbanisation

Rashi Goel 12 Nov 2024

Indigenous leaders assess outcomes on equity at biodiversity COP

Aimee Gabay 12 Nov 2024

Rooted in tradition, nature-based architecture bridges generations

Barasha Das 1 Nov 2024

Human equations with their local invasives could be the key to better management

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 23 Oct 2024
Mahouts and their elephants at Kaziranga National Park. Image by SeethaG via Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0].

The courage and legacy of mahouts in Kaziranga

Nabarun Guha 7 Oct 2024

Sonam Wangchuk and climate marchers stopped, detained, and then released by Delhi Police

Simrin Sirur 4 Oct 2024

[Commentary] Conserving old ways in a new world

Arathi Menon 2 Oct 2024