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Image shows a fire on a garbage dump

Brahmapuram fumes over waste

Reema Abraham 13 Mar 2023

India gains global prominence in agrochemical production; questions remain on polluting nature of industries

Supriya Vohra 8 Feb 2023
Western Ghats in Kerala. Photo by Shagil Kannur/Wikimedia Commons.

Scientists aim to study how aerosols impact rainfall in the Western Ghats, but it’s complicated

Mohit M. Rao 1 Dec 2022

Mizoram youth protest against the national highways widening project

Nabarun Guha 17 Nov 2022
Medicines

Humans are contaminating Earth’s waterways with medicines, pharmaceutical ingredients

Malavika Vyawahare 5 Oct 2022

Soaring temperatures, black carbon impact glaciers in Drass region of Ladakh

Hirra Azmat 29 Sep 2022
Image shows a mural depicting coal mine workers

Coal will stay strong even as solar shines in India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 21 Sep 2022
A thermal power plant in Haryana. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia Commons.

Climate action, pollution control needed to keep sulphur dioxide in check

Manish Chandra Mishra, Sahana Ghosh 14 Sep 2022

Rethinking, recycling and re-loving: A peek into India’s circular fashion economy

Shilpa Raina 11 Aug 2022
Image shows plasic containers in a trash heap

Dumped plastic containers lead to mosquito abundance on the Lakshadweep islands

Sahana Ghosh 10 Aug 2022

[Explainer] What’s causing mass fish death in India’s ponds and lakes?

Ananya Vyas 19 Jul 2022
Garbage burning near East Kolkata Wetlands. Currently, the environmental crisis is viewed only as a pollution problem despite the data and knowledge available on the consequences of climate change.

[Commentary] Environment law needs to go beyond the ‘pollution paradigm’

Sugandha Yadav 18 Jul 2022

Dimming the glow of firefly festivals in Maharashtra

Abhijeet Gurjar 1 Jul 2022

[Video] Can a waste-to-energy plant address piling concerns from a landfill site?

Kundan Pandey, Video by Shaz Syed 1 Jul 2022
BaA herd of elephants foraging amidsts a pile of plastic waste in Sri Lanka.

Plastic, glass and other waste materials found in elephant dung in Uttarakhand

Anusha Krishnan 27 Jun 2022
Effluents from factories can be seen flowing on village roads in the Kundli industrial area. Photo by Sat Singh/Mongabay.

Industrial water pollution threatens residents in Haryana’s Kundli area

Sat Singh 24 Jun 2022

[Explainer] How are fireflies affected by light pollution?

Shreya Sharma 22 Jun 2022
Image shows the bank of the Mula Mutha river in Pune with underconstructed buildings in the background

Pune’s proposed river rejuvenation project does not consider ecology, hydrogeology, and climate change, say experts

Vinaya Kurtkoti 27 May 2022

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 6 May 2022

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

Archana Singh 24 Mar 2022