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Biodiversity threats from ghost fishing gear in the Ganga

Sahana Ghosh 18 Dec 2020
Sindhu Bhaskar builds an earth oven outside her family's natural 'earthbag' home in Thiruvannamalai. Photo by Sindhu Bhaskar.

Looking at the past, present and future of natural building in India

Nandita Jayaraj 16 Dec 2020
Villager looking at mining devastated areas in Goa, India. Photo by Frederick Noronha/Wikimedia Commons.

People living near mining activities at increased risk of diseases, says study

Mayank Aggarwal, Sahana Ghosh 14 Dec 2020

City of blinding lights: Artificial light disturbs nature’s processes in Bengaluru

Vimal Simha 14 Dec 2020

Bauxite mining threatens India’s lone wolf sanctuary and an interstate river

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi 9 Dec 2020

Indian government forms national panel to drive Paris Agreement goals

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Dec 2020

India’s largest coalfield to expand, green cover under threat

Manish Kumar 6 Nov 2020
Heaps of masks were found along with other biomedical waste on Rushikonda beach seabed. Photo courtesy- Platypus Escapes, Visakhapatnam.

Discarded single-use plastic masks and gloves are choking ocean beds

Nalini Ravichandran 29 Oct 2020

Multiple phases of mining in Ballari take a toll on its people and the environment

Tejas Dayananda Sagar 22 Oct 2020

Air pollution in cities takes a toll on bees

Mohit M. Rao 22 Sep 2020

Punjab’s Mattewara forest and Sutlej river under threat from upcoming industrial park

Vivek Gupta 15 Sep 2020

Whose minerals are they anyway?

Mayank Aggarwal 10 Sep 2020

Clean air, sanitation can save newborn lives

Sahana Ghosh 3 Sep 2020

[Explainer] The why and how of disposing electronic waste

Sejal Mehta 25 Aug 2020

West Bengal fishermen observe fewer shrimp and fish deaths by pollution this year

Namrata Acharya 20 Aug 2020

East and west: The parallel worlds of India’s coal and renewable sectors

Mayank Aggarwal 13 Aug 2020

[Commentary] Why the plane could, yet the country can’t, run on biofuel?

Monika Mandal 5 Aug 2020

[Video] Is mining in India ‘just’ for the environment and communities?

Kartik Chandramouli, Mayank Aggarwal 20 Jul 2020

Ganga’s wait for a cleaner tomorrow continues …

Mayank Aggarwal 9 Jul 2020

Your Environment This Week: Yak exchange, flowers climbing up Himalayas, noise pollution fines

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2020