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Environmental experts opine that the Central Government’s decisions regarding speedy clearances of forest lands display a great interest in ease of business at the cost of the environment. Photo by Vinayaraj/ Wikimedia Commons.

Environment ministry pursues ‘ease of business’, one office order at a time

Mayank Aggarwal 9 Feb 2022

PlastiCities: the role of grassroots initiatives in managing waste in cities

Devayani Khare 8 Feb 2022

[Commentary] Tracing the leopard gecko’s story from pet trade to the lab and beyond

Anurag Mishra 7 Feb 2022
Fragmentation of forests in Southern India due to plantations. The latest government forest report classifies plantations as forests

[Commentary] Green language of the Union Budget may result in net loss for the environment

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 4 Feb 2022

[Webinar] Who benefits from India’s clean energy jobs?

Mongabay India 3 Feb 2022

[Commentary] Forest restoration: challenges and opportunities for India

Mohan Chandra Pargaien 2 Feb 2022

Experiments with native trees, seed bank to revive Rajasthan’s desert ecosystem

Rashi Goel 1 Feb 2022

Gond women take charge of water and farming in their village

Jigyasa Mishra 1 Feb 2022

[Commentary] Responding to ecological imbalance: Tokugha’s journey in conservation

Chitra Sangtani 28 Jan 2022
Eucalyptus plantations (left) adjoining tea plantations (right) dotted with silver oak trees in the Anamalai hills, Western Ghats, India. Photo by T.R. Shankar Raman/Wikimedia Commons.

[Analysis] Indian forests around the size of Nagaland, thinned down in two years

Prudhviraj Rupavath 27 Jan 2022
Birdwatchers

[Book Review] An introduction to birding can build a lifelong interest in the natural world

Arti Das 27 Jan 2022

The Leh airport’s journey towards carbon neutrality

Rohin Kumar 26 Jan 2022
Mangrove re-establishment in the previous terrestrial zones like human habitation, coconut groves, and the terrestrial forest is commonly seen across the Nicobar Islands. The above image from the Trinket islands shows mangrove colonization at the previous coconut grove. Photo by Nehru Prabakaran.

Remnant mangrove tree sites show faster recovery post 2004 tsunami in the Nicobar Islands

Neha Jain 26 Jan 2022

[Obituary] M.K. Prasad: A relentless green activist

Basheer Marakar 25 Jan 2022
A discarded mask found along the Mumbai coastline. Photo courtesy- Prasant Barik, Aahwahan Foundation

COVID-19 and the changing nature of waste

Anusha Krishnan 25 Jan 2022

The state of India’s forests: Losing forests, gaining plantations

Mayank Aggarwal 24 Jan 2022
Mining machinery at a Goa mine brought to a halt by Supreme Court of India’s February 2018 judgment. Photo by Meera Mohanty/Mongabay.

Mining on the shifty sands of Goan politics

Meera Mohanty 20 Jan 2022

Snakes in Bengaluru city

Almaas Masood 19 Jan 2022

Transforming a ghost village with hill-centric livelihood and tourism opportunities

Archana Singh 18 Jan 2022
Zamil Ahmed dresses in a black fur costume in absence of bear. Photo by Madhav Sharma

Two sides of the wildlife law: Animals protected but Kalandar tribe trying to make ends meet

Madhav Sharma 17 Jan 2022