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An orangutan seized by YOSL-OIC in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Image by Panut Hadisiswoyo.

As exotic primates reach India, welfare concerns grow

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026

As tigers spill beyond reserves, India rethinks conservation

Arathi Menon 18 Sep 2026
A view of the Himalayas and Indus river in Pakistan, April 1968. The Indus Water Treaty was signed in 1960. (AP Photo/JMG)

Indus Waters Treaty needs modernisation, experts say amid deadlock

Simrin Sirur 17 Sep 2026

The crane that loves a duet

Team Mongabay-India 16 Sep 2026
Labourers carry firewood, as smoke rises from a bricks factory on the outskirts of Jammu. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

BRICS declaration calls for climate action while recognising fossil fuel role

Kundan Pandey 15 Sep 2026
A coal block in Hasdeo. Even today, approximately 75% of India’s total energy consumption is met by coal-based thermal power plants. Image by Alok Prakash Putul/Mongabay.

Centre tightens grip over mineral taxation, states cry foul

Vishal Kumar Jain 11 Sep 2026

Krishna AchutaRao, climate scientist who pioneered attribution research in India, dies at 62 [Obituary]

Simrin Sirur 10 Sep 2026
People stand on remnants of a bridge which spanned across Trishuli river and was washed away in flash floods, in Dhading district. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal’s flood disaster puts its hydropower-first strategy, exports to the test

Rudra Pangeni 10 Sep 2026
A customer buys caged birds at a pet market in Kolkata, West Bengal. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Your exotic pet could be putting your health at risk

Arathi Menon 10 Sep 2026

The cliff-climbing goat

Team Mongabay-India 9 Sep 2026
A snow leopard in the Himalayas. Image by Prasenjeet Yadav.

Snow leopards and their survival in changing times [Book Review]

Usha Rai 8 Sep 2026

Little is known about this flycatcher that migrates across the country every year

Hirra Azmat 7 Sep 2026
Women walk after collecting firewood for their homes from a forest area in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Study links female legislators to faster forest-cover growth

Arathi Menon 4 Sep 2026
A farmer sets fire to crop residue on the out skirts of Jalandhar, Punjab. (AP Photo)

Crop-residue burning, a major contributor to black carbon pollution: Study

Nikhil Sreekandan 3 Sep 2026
A farmer stands on a parched paddy field near Jammu in 2014. Representative image. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

El Niño brings drought declaration into sharper focus

Simrin Sirur 3 Sep 2026

Reduced exposure to nature is linked to immune system diseases [Commentary]

Irfan Shakeer, Ayisha Farseena 3 Sep 2026

How Maldharis find freshwater using ancient knowledge in arid Banni

Marhaba Hilali 2 Sep 2026

The largest land mammal in the country

Team Mongabay-India 2 Sep 2026
The gap in sowing has narrowed, but persistent regional deficits remain relevant for crop prospects and rural incomes, according to the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA)’s latest review. Image by Kundan Pandey/Mongabay.

Kharif sowing deficit narrows, but El Niño remains a risk

Kundan Pandey 2 Sep 2026
A flock of great hornbills in Valparai, Tamil Nadu. Image by Rohit Jahnavi via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Genetic blueprint of four Asian hornbills offers new tool for hornbill research

Nikhil Sreekandan 31 Aug 2026