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A dose of eco-optimism: Stories of hope and inspiration in 2019

Aditi Tandon 31 Dec 2019

Keeping the Mahatma’s light shining

Kanchan Srivastava 30 Sep 2019
(L to R) Ranjitha (radio jockey), Durga (volunteer) and Aparna (station director) inside the recording room at Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli, a community radio station based in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.

How a community radio gives voice to the climate-vulnerable in Tamil Nadu

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Sep 2019

A social venture on the road to improve lives, reduce emissions with electric rickshaws

Kartik Chandramouli 5 Aug 2019

Turning agro-waste into environment-friendly plastics

Sahana Ghosh 30 Jul 2019

Community farming in Goa emerges as a tool against land conversion

Pamela D'Mello 24 Jul 2019

Flood-resistant housing attracts attention in Kerala

K. Rajendran 24 Jul 2019

Your environment this week: Dealing with Fani, India’s solar sector waste challenge

Mongabay India 10 May 2019

Vhali Watcher: An app to set whale sharks free

Vasudevan Sridharan 7 May 2019

Wetlands to wastebins, Mumbai’s diverse habitats house hundreds of bird species

Aditi Tandon 18 Feb 2019
Indian-Humpback-Dolphin

What underwater sounds tell us about marine life

Sejal Mehta 4 Feb 2019

Delhi smog: Entrepreneurs offer hope with technologies to reuse crop biomass

Nupur Roopa 16 Jan 2019

Apps for animals: Conservation tech’s new frontier

Manon Verchot 25 Dec 2018

Smartphones to map invasive plants in Tamil Nadu

Sharada Balasubramanian 20 Dec 2018

Saving the hornbill with crowdsourced data

Rishika Pardikar 30 Oct 2018

Darjeeling Himalayas gets a people-centric early warning system for landslides

Sahana Ghosh 19 Sep 2018

[Interview] The thrills and spills of trapping snow leopard pictures in the high Himalayas motivates Tashi Ghale

Nabin Baral, Ramesh Bhushal, Willie Shubert 18 Jun 2018
A 2009 image of UB City in Bengaluru. At present, one of the biggest reasons behind Bengaluru’s faltering urban system is that the city has been running without a local government for over four years. Image by Prateek Karandikar via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Innovative aerial survey project maps rooftop solar energy potential for Bengaluru

Sapna Gopal 18 Apr 2018

Playing Cupid to conserve the remaining pygmy hogs in Assam

Sahana Ghosh 30 Mar 2018

Will the pill work for the elephant and other wild animals?

T. V. Padma 15 Feb 2018