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A woman returns from collecting the wood of the dead mangroves from the forest. Photo by Subhrajit Sen/ Mongabay.

Lack of resources slow embankment construction in the Sundarbans

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya 11 Nov 2022
Image shows an aerial shot of a boat in a mangrove

How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti 28 Sep 2022
People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022
A Sherpa with a yak at the base camp of Sagarmatha.

[Interview] “There are many Sherpas, not known to the outside world, who regularly summit the mountains”

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Aug 2022
Avicennia marina, more commonly known as grey mangroves or white mangroves. Photo by Dinesh Valke/ Wikimedia Commons.

Successful model of development in tandem with mangrove restoration

T. V. Padma 21 Jul 2022

Bangladesh Sundarbans communities face hardships following a resource hunting ban

Abu Siddique 14 Jul 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

[Photos] Maharashtra’s female farm workforce struggles in the shadows of floods

Sanket Jain 23 Jun 2022

Low prices offered by the government pushes tendu leaf collectors to explore open market

Alok Prakash Putul 21 Jun 2022

[Book review] The Narmada Bachao Andolan through the eyes of lesser-known tribal leaders

Kundan Pandey 20 Jun 2022

Bihar’s organic farming model fails to impress as farmers struggle with low yield and high input cost

Umesh Kumar Ray 12 May 2022

A twin-state hydropower project could drown livelihoods and biodiversity

Kapil Kajal 27 Apr 2022
Image shows woody stem of Rubus ellipticus with fruiting

Himalayan medicinal plants under threat due to climate change

T. V. Padma 19 Apr 2022
National Tiger Conservation Authority report says a majority of the 575 local people surveyed were positive about the introduction of the tiger. Photo by Ayush Baheti/ Wikimedia Commons.

Is a tiger reserve in Rajasthan’s Kumbhalgarh a bad idea?

Rosamma Thomas 8 Apr 2022
Shandongs, traditional trapping pits, near herder camps were neutralised by removing a few stones to let the trapped wolves escape, and building a stupa near it. Photo by Karma Sonam.

From shandong to stupa: the story of conservation of wolves in Ladakh

Nabarun Guha 25 Mar 2022

Reviving history and the environment in the City of Djinns and saints

Archana Singh 24 Mar 2022

[Webinar] Is India’s clean energy quest inclusive of women?

Team Mongabay-India 3 Mar 2022

India’s women and children highly vulnerable to climate change yet missing in climate policies

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Mar 2022

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

Nabarun Guha 13 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