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Barnacles on a plastic bottle found on the beach. Photo by Gunasekaran Kannan

Marine debris transporting invasive species along the southeastern coast

Max Martin 11 Oct 2023
Photo by Karolina Grabowska/ Pexels.

[Explainer] What happens when pharmaceutical pollutants enter the environment?

Mahima Jain 29 Sep 2023
Pilgrims take blessings from a priest at the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats. Photo by David

Green pilgrimage model balances faith and conservation

Arathi Menon 5 Sep 2023
One of the many lakes in Kolar that are being filled with Bengaluru's wastewater, Kolaramma lake in Kolar district is seen here covered in water hyacinth. Photo sourced from Anjaneya Reddy.

Should rural India drink urban wastewater?

Arathi Menon 28 Aug 2023

Microplastics in J&K’s waterbodies dangerous to ecosystems and humans alike

Hirra Azmat 18 Aug 2023
Women with palmyra nursery bags. Photo by Balaji Vedharajan.

Palmyra leaf bags substitute plastic nursery bags to support sustainable mangrove restoration

M.T. Saju 18 Jul 2023

Tarballs dot India’s west coast annually, indicating continued oil spills, ship fuel discharge

Manjula Nair 21 Nov 2022
Medicines

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

Malavika Vyawahare 5 Oct 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

In Odisha’s Mangalajodi wetland, youth strive to build a healthier ecosystem and generate livelihoods

Tazeen Qureshy 26 Aug 2022
Civil society members at the project site with banners to protect Mattewara forest and the Sutlej river. Photo by special arrangement.

How Punjab’s civil society prevented an ecological disaster in already polluted Ludhiana

Vivek Gupta 29 Jul 2022

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

Ananya Vyas 19 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
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

[Commentary] Water tariff could be a tool to improve water use efficiency in domestic sector

Apoorva Bamal, Niyati Seth 7 Jun 2022
Water being pumped through tubewells is also contaminated. Photo by Omkar Singh.

Industries dump chemicals into fields, pollute Ajnar river in Madhya Pradesh

Anil Kumar Tiwari 3 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
Under encroachment, Chahalwala pond of Kharawar village has turned into a garbage dumping site. Photo by Sat Singh/Mongabay.

Once the lifeline of villages, ponds in Haryana turn into garbage sites

Sat Singh 26 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
Image shows aquaculture farms in Sundarbans

[Commentary] Is expansion of aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans an ecological threat or a pathway to sustainable development?

Shaberi Das, Sugata Hazra 20 Apr 2022