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As per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 40% of the agriculture in India is dependent on rain. The constant variations in rainfall pattern will impact the sector and India's food production. Photo by Leo Sebastian (IRRI-Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security)/Flickr

A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector

Vivek Gupta 7 Nov 2022
Intentional burning of jhum gone out of control at a forest adjacent to Phalee, during Phalee Luita, a seed sowing festival. Photo by Shemchon Awungshi, Phalee BMC.

[Commentary] Documenting the flora and fauna of Phalee to mitigate the impact of forest fires

Ng Ngashangva 7 Nov 2022

Staff crunch ailing state pollution control boards in India, finds think tank analysis

Manish Kumar 4 Nov 2022

World falters in containing climate crisis as negotiators head to Egypt for UN summit

Soumya Sarkar 4 Nov 2022

[Commentary] Kolkata’s climate action plan needs to be more gender-sensitive

Manoranjan Ghosh 4 Nov 2022

New approach of Indian monsoon estimation to account for rainfall variations

Archita Bhatta 3 Nov 2022

Coconut-based integrated farming could help sequester carbon, improve farm productivity: study

T. V. Padma 2 Nov 2022

Rooftop solar extends deadline for target which is not a promising sign say experts

Kundan Pandey 1 Nov 2022
Chennai city flooded after Cyclone Nivar in 2020.

[Explainer] What is Loss and Damage?

Mahima Jain 31 Oct 2022

Tracking methane emissions for mitigation

Sahana Ghosh 31 Oct 2022

Who is extracting Goa’s groundwater?

Supriya Vohra 28 Oct 2022

After little success in past, India revisits plan to repower its ageing wind turbines

Manish Kumar 28 Oct 2022
The reflection of the bird.

The planet has lost 83% of its freshwater aquatic life in 50 years, finds report

Manish Chandra Mishra 27 Oct 2022

Government claims every household in Goa has piped water; records, residents disagree

Supriya Vohra 27 Oct 2022

Deep-sea mining efforts gear up to meet clean energy demands amid concerns

Priyanka Shankar 26 Oct 2022

India needs legal framework for closing mines and power plants

Kundan Pandey 25 Oct 2022
Dahisar in north Mumbai. Photo by Saumitra Shinde/Mongabay.

Mumbai activists demand that the tree geo-tagging information be made public

Hepzi Anthony 20 Oct 2022
Image shows a house sparrow perching on a grill in front of a house

[Book Review] ‘First Steps’ tracks the beginnings of citizen science in India

Renuka Kulkarni 19 Oct 2022
The habitat of the WWWD in the eastern part of the Indian Eastern Himalayan region, is likely to shift westward.

Climate change threatens the habitat of the endangered white-winged wood duck, finds study

Roopak Goswami 18 Oct 2022

Big gaps in green financing could hamper India’s energy transition

Kundan Pandey 17 Oct 2022