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A construction crew works on a public ropeway project. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Urban Challenge Fund’s promise rests on implementation capacity [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 26 May 2026
Team Plas-Stick and their solution (a handheld magnet attracts a clump of waste tamarind seed powder and microplastics. Image courtesy of The Earth Prize.

Indian students win The Earth Prize for microplastics solution

Arathi Menon 25 May 2026
Formal segregation of e-waste being done at the Karo Sambhav facility in Gurugram. Image courtesy of Karo Sambhav.

How NGOs are bringing India’s informal waste collectors into the system

Shoma Abhyankar 22 May 2026
Excelsa coffee fruits at an estate in Kodagu district, Karnataka. Image courtesy of South India Coffee Company (SICC).

The search for climate resilient coffee in a warming world

Meena Menon 21 May 2026
State Disaster Response Force personnel head to rescue affected people after heavy rainfall in Guwahati in April 2026. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

While the world hesitates, India must continue leading on climate [Commentary]

Minal Pathak, Vaibhav Chaturvedi 12 May 2026

Pollution and poor infrastructure remain barriers to cyclists in India

Aisiri Amin 8 May 2026

Municipal bonds need more than incentives to fund India’s cities [Commentary]

Ravikant Joshi 11 Mar 2026
Researchers from CUSAT and the Science Centre Thuruthikkara conduct testing for microplastic elements in the well water at Vidhya Manjush's residence. Image by Suresh Thuruthikkara.

Community-led water conservation revives groundwater

Anjana V. 27 Feb 2026
A commercial plantation for plywood production. Image by James Anderson, World Resources Institute via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Government opens up forest plantation to private sector, critics question its conservation value

Simrin Sirur 28 Jan 2026
P.V. Shivaprasad. Image by Sharmila Vaidyanathan.

P.V. Shivaprasad talks about rice, food security and his fascination with plants [Interview]

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Jan 2026
Water being pumped out of a flooded road in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Representative image by Divya Kilikar/Mongabay.

New UNEP report flags that adaptation ambitions don’t have the climate finance to support them

Manish Chandra Mishra 31 Oct 2025

Centring sustainability in a growing marathon culture

Aparna Ganesan 29 Oct 2025
An artisan weaves a hand-tufted carpet in Bhadohi. Image by Aslam Mahboob.

U.S. tariffs set to threaten India’s traditional craft revival

Shweta Thakur Nanda 26 Sep 2025
A man applies reflective paint to the roof of a house to cool the indoors in Ahmedabad. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A whole-system approach to cooling in a warming world [Commentary]

Prima Madan, Akash Goenka 25 Aug 2025
Fishermen from Kavaratti at work, performing pole-and-line fishing in the deep-sea area. Image by K.A. Shaji.

Pole-and-line fishing face new challenges with push for tuna fish exports

K.A. Shaji 17 Jun 2025
Between 2000 and 2019, India experienced 321 natural disasters that led to over 70,000 deaths and affected approximately one billion people. Image by Priyanka Vaderu.

An evolving workforce around disaster management

Sejal Mehta, Aditi Tandon 22 May 2025
Field biologists at work, monitoring tropical rainforest tree phenology in the Anamalai Hills. Image by T.R. Shankar Raman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

What are green jobs? [Explainer]

Aditi Tandon 1 May 2025
Employees in designer Payal Jain's factory make garments out of katran, or fabric scraps. Image by Payal Jain.

Tiny textile scraps turn into luxury fashion

Shweta Thakur Nanda 21 Apr 2025
Workers pushing cotton bales at Kolkata railway station. Cotton bales are a key raw material for the textile industry. Image by Jorge Royan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)"

Latest ESG reporting rules redefine key suppliers and customers of listed companies

Kundan Pandey 11 Apr 2025
Workers offload harvested rice. Beyond emissions, agriculture faces challenges like employing a large workforce and ensuring food security. Image by G41rn8 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

High stakes but low investment in sustainable agriculture in India

Kundan Pandey 31 Jan 2025