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Vehicles move through dense smog in New Delhi in December 2025. (AP Photo)

People are leaving cities to escape toxic air

Shweta Thakur Nanda 7 Jan 2026

Tainted waters: A community’s long battle against coastal pollution in Maharashtra

Amitha Balachandra 18 Dec 2025
Workers install a solar panel on the rooftop of a residence in Gurugram. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Residential rooftop solar grows under government scheme, but gaps persist [Commentary]

Gaurav Upadhyay, Prabhakar Sharma 15 Dec 2025
According to the PMC, the priority stretch between Sangamwadi and Bund Garden is nearly complete. Image by Stephin Thomas.

As a riverfront plan advances, ecologists warn of damage to floodplains, biodiversity

Stephin Thomas 9 Dec 2025
Workers at a bakery get newly baked pav ready for sale. Image by Megha Acharya/Mongabay-India.

Clean fuel mandate pushes Mumbai’s traditional pav bakeries away from coal

Esha Lohia 5 Dec 2025
Tejashri Shelke, the sarpanch of Shelkewadi, stated that all of the homes in the 'Pink Village' are owned by women and symbolically painted pink. Image by Abhijeet Gurjar.

Rooftop solar consumers face uncertainty in Maharashtra

Abhijeet Gurjar 4 Dec 2025
Adivasi Bhoir family’s home in Kelti Pada, where they grow and sell vegetables and fruits in their garden. Image courtesy of Amrita Bhattacharjee.

Uncertainty around future of Mumbai’s last green lung

Esha Lohia 5 Nov 2025
Vulture nest numbers have sharply declined in recent years, from 23 occupied nests in 2019 to just one in both 2022 and 2023, across two cliff-nesting colonies in the Kaghaznagar Forest Division and adjoining parts of the Deccan Plateau, at the junction of Telangana, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh. Image by Ravikanth Manchiryala.

Deccan’s vultures in decline

Sneha Mahale 4 Nov 2025
Even in fragmented areas, leopards managed to disperse, reflecting their ability to live close to humans and in varied habitats. Image by Shrushti Modi.

Large carnivores share the same forests but respond differently to fragmentation

Sneha Mahale 14 Oct 2025
A tigress and her cub in Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve. In their earliest phase prior to dispersal, young tigers stayed within their natal ranges, close to their mothers’ territories. Image by Rohit Sharma via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tracking tigers as they move from comfort zones to independence

Sneha Mahale 6 Oct 2025
A farmer shows his soybean crops damaged by the heavy rains. About 1.75 million (17.5 lakh) hectares of farmland across Sambhajinagar, Jalna, Beed, Latur, Parbhani, Dharashiv and Hingoli districts, has been damaged, according to the government data. Image by Yash Pawar.

Intense rains inundate farms in region known for droughts

Suraj Patke 2 Oct 2025

Rare dhole sighting a reminder of unexpected biodiversity in Pune’s landscapes

Aditi Tandon 22 Sep 2025
A variety of sharks and rays caught in a trawler. Image by Imran Samad.

India’s nearshore fisheries overlap with shark and ray habitats

Rupsy Khurana 18 Sep 2025
Farmer Laxman Shankar Dalvi, one of several residents served eviction notices by the Maharashtra Forest Department. Image by Esha Lohia for Mongabay.

Caught between laws and loss

Esha Lohia 16 Sep 2025
Chhota Matka photographed in Tadoba-Andhari’s buffer zone in August, days before his capture. Such sightings of ageing tigers often become turning points in the public conversation on conservation. Image by Himanshu Bagde.

When compassion for tigers means letting go [Commentary]

Ashraf Shaikh, Prajakta Hushangabadkar 15 Sep 2025

Tracking India’s elusive grassland nomad

Sneha Mahale 29 Aug 2025
A woman washes clothes near a well. Most village wells in Melghat contain murky water, which women use to wash clothes and utensils, leading to diseases and infections. Image by Abhijeet Tangde.

Despite dams and water schemes, tribal villages live with drought

Kiran Gite, Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Aug 2025
Representative image by Yathin S Krishnappa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Supreme Court orders investigation into Vantara

Simrin Sirur 27 Aug 2025
A municipal worker helps a man push his bike through a waterlogged road following heavy rains in Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Mumbai reels under relentless rain

Kundan Pandey 20 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