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The team aims to expand the Wildlife Watchers programme beyond Pune to other districts and habitats. Image courtesy of The Grasslands Trust.

Local and vocal, community watch bridges the gap between research and wildlife [Commentary]

Mihir Godbole, Prerana Sethiya 25 Jul 2025

Study maps microplastics in Mumbai’s mangroves

Aditi Tandon 25 Jul 2025
A farmer shows a sample of his Khapli harvest. Image by special arrangement.

An old grain for bold gain

Hiren Kumar Bose 24 Jul 2025
Blood glucose testing being conducted in a clinic in Kolkata. Representative image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Overlooking climate change impacts may affect diabetes treatment in India

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 10 Jul 2025
A Waste-to-Energy plant is being constructed within the dumping ground, close to residential areas. Image by Esha Lohia.

Redevelopment plan sparks fear of displacement and toxic relocation

Esha Lohia 10 Jul 2025

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

Saurabh Purohit, Y.D. Imran Khan 7 Jul 2025
As summer heat intensifies each year, studies find that tin and cement roofs increase indoor heat stress in rural households. Image by Premsagar Tasgaonkar.

Too hot to handle as rural houses turn heat traps

Arathi Menon 23 Jun 2025
Image of Maruti Chitampalli by All India Radio. Representative image of Melghat Tiger Reserve by Ankitfunk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Maruti Chitampalli, the forest’s living encyclopedia, dies at 93 [Obituary]

Manish Chandra Mishra 19 Jun 2025
General view of the motorcoach ready for service — First GIPR EMU, 1924. Image courtesy of Central Railway.

The railway journey to net zero began a century ago, but coal slows it down

Esha Lohia 6 Jun 2025
Sunil Mahadeorao Bhadke, who uses both rainfed and flood irrigation on his 12-acre cotton farm in Akhatwada village in Amravati district, Maharashtra, has noticed the well water reducing. Image by Vandana K.

India’s cotton exports could threaten Maharashtra’s groundwater

Vandana K. 22 May 2025
A fruit stall selling a variety of mangoes. Higher temperatures during fruiting season can not only affect colour and texture, but even shrink mangoes. Farmers say customers refuse to pay the same price for smaller, defective fruits, resulting in a loss for sellers and farmers. Representative image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

Heatwaves, extreme temperatures threaten the king of mangoes

Lisann Dias 20 May 2025
Geeta Kini, a jamun cultivator, holds an umbrella to protect the produce from heavy rainfall. She says that previously, at least 50 women would sell jamuns by the roads. This year, there were very few of them, owing to a huge loss of jamuns, according to her. Image by Rushikesh More.

Stories no longer lost in translation

Saumitra Shinde 13 May 2025
A representative image of tree felling in West Bengal. The Supreme Court of India is hearing a petition challenging a government-issued procedure for handling environmental violations. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

Industry pushes for reinstatement of amnesty for environmental violations

Akshay Deshmane 25 Apr 2025
A river heliodor damselfly. Image by Ameya Deshpande.

Damselflies in climate distress

Arathi Menon 4 Apr 2025
Migratory birds at the DPS Flamingo lake that is half covered with algae. Image by Esha Lohia/Mongabay

Citizens continue a decade-long fight to conserve an urban lake

Esha Lohia 2 Apr 2025
Bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande and technologist Vedant Barje with the BatEchoMon system installed by them. Image by Vivek Hasyagar.

Automating bat detection for more efficient monitoring and data collection

Aisiri Amin 2 Apr 2025
A market in Mysuru, Karnataka. Several Indian cities are introducing amnesty schemes to encourage property owners to clear pending taxes. Image by Kundan Pandey for Mongabay.

Property tax revenue could help cities adapt to a hotter world

Kundan Pandey 28 Mar 2025

How shifting weather patterns threaten a sweet legacy

Rushikesh More, Apsara Aga 18 Mar 2025

Public private partnerships build urban forests

Shweta Thakur Nanda 20 Feb 2025

Pune’s Zika and GBS outbreaks call for better use of surveillance, data

Disha Shetty 13 Feb 2025