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Image shows a man standing on a bridge with a small stream flowing by

Residents, activists claim new Goa airport construction has impacted water availability

Maitreya Prithwiraj Ghorpade 18 Mar 2024
Artist Bhajju Shyam paints himself immersed in nature, playing the Bana and singing traditional songs. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay

Converting folklores to fine art

Manish Chandra Mishra 12 Mar 2024
Saras Mela in Noida

Crafting a sustainable future for artisans using bamboo

Kundan Pandey 28 Feb 2024

[Interview] Camelia Dewan on how ‘climate change’ is becoming a development buzzword to continue business as usual

Simrin Sirur 26 Feb 2024

Hindi cinema embraces environmental narratives

Vishal Kumar Jain 20 Feb 2024

Channapatna’s traditional artisans toy with modernity 

Arathi Menon 18 Jan 2024

Rising air pollution impacts India’s crop yields and food security

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 9 Jan 2024

Oil spill in Ennore brings fishing to a standstill

Laasya Shekhar 29 Dec 2023
A herd of elephants in Assam.

Farmers grow paddy for wild elephants in Assam to reduce conflicts

Biswajit Das, Mongabay.com 27 Sep 2023

Venomous snakebites, an occupational hazard for women tea workers

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 8 Sep 2023

The potential of mini-grids as a sustainable and economical alternative for global electrification

Kundan Pandey 23 Aug 2023
Image of a man with a gun captured by a camera trap.

Privacy concerns rise as wildlife surveillance tech ‘watches’ people

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Aug 2023

Nepal comes next in line to Sri Lanka to debate exporting ‘problematic’ monkeys

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 May 2023

Environmentalists denounce Sri Lanka’s talks of exporting 100,000 crop-raiding macaques

Malaka Rodrigo 4 May 2023

Study looks at India’s rural work guarantee scheme through a climate lens

Kundan Pandey 14 Apr 2023

Experts call for coexistence, sustainable development as tiger population is close to saturation

Saurabh Katkurwar 14 Apr 2023
Conducting fieldwork in Fakim Community Reserve with a local resident Alemba. Photo from Joli Rumi Borah.

[Interview] Conservation scientist Joli Rumi Borah on integrating traditional knowledge in research

Sahana Ghosh 13 Apr 2023

[Interview] Scientist Ruth DeFries on deforestation: There isn’t one driver, there’s a different context in different places

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 7 Apr 2023
A paddy field in Kerala. Photo by Anne Roberts/Flickr.

With increasing climate-related threats, farmers gear up for adaptation

Kundan Pandey 4 Apr 2023
A hummingbird moth.

Decline in pollinators linked to half a million premature human deaths every year, shows study

Jeremy Hance 4 Apr 2023