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Urban projects, human settlements close in on Mumbai’s bird habitats

Hepzi Anthony 13 Jan 2021
Leopard in BR_Hills

India records increase in leopard population but real number could be much more

Manish Chandra Mishra, Mayank Aggarwal 30 Dec 2020
The gaur passed through densely populated and constructed areas. Photo by Center for Citizen Science

Two gaurs in Pune and a lesson in urban wildlife management

Shatakshi Gawade 24 Dec 2020

Returning to traditional practices to save Vidarbha’s ‘Lake District’

Nivedita Khandekar 16 Dec 2020

Story of a river bed, a geological marvel and community pride

Manjula Nair 10 Dec 2020
Aditi Deodhar, founder-director of Jeevitnadi, empowers and mobilises citizens to conserve urban rivers of Pune such as the Mutha river, which has been plagued by pollution and untreated sewage. Illustration by Rohan Dahotre.

People power to clean up Pune river, bit by bit

Himanshu Nitnaware 2 Dec 2020

Navi Mumbai couple fights to save a bird haven from becoming a golf course

Tanvi Deshpande 23 Nov 2020
Banyan tree at Bhose village. Pic credit- Prakash Kantheshwarkar, resident

Govt, NGO, citizens join hands in Maharashtra to conserve heritage trees

Supriya Dedgaonkar 16 Nov 2020

A group of women protect Sindhudurg’s mangroves through ecotourism

Sneha Pillai 13 Nov 2020

How wildlife outside protected areas responds to climate extremes

Sahana Ghosh 11 Nov 2020

Mumbai looks to Miyawaki to fast forward replenishing its depleting tree cover

Hepzi Anthony 9 Nov 2020

Illegal industrial and mining activities continue in great Indian bustard’s habitat in Maharashtra

Himanshu Nitnaware 20 Oct 2020

[Video] In conversation with Rahul Ram: Exploring the confluence of music and environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Oct 2020

Beekeeping empowers women, brings in honey and lush kitchen gardens

Monica Pelliccia 9 Oct 2020
Seeds of Terminalia belerica THIS

Conserving sacred groves through community participation

Himanshu Nitnaware 21 Sep 2020

One of the world’s most trafficked animals needs focus outside India’s protected areas

Sahana Ghosh 18 Sep 2020

To dam or not to dam? Floods in eastern Vidarbha raise the perennial debate

Nivedita Khandekar 18 Sep 2020
Tiger comes onto one of the streets in the CSTPS in January this year. Photo by Rahul Kuchankar

The tigers that live in a thermal power plant

Saurabh Katkurwar 4 Sep 2020
Biomedical waste dumped in Dombivali’s Milap Nagar during ongoing the COVID pandemic. Photo by Kishor Sohoni.

Mumbai’s COVID waste peaks, second waste treatment plant not in sight

Tanvi Deshpande 1 Sep 2020

Deep below the surface, boreholes offer clues to past warming in the Western Ghats

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2020