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Image shows group of Auroville residents standing in protest

Environmental conflict threatens iconic Auroville

Sarosh Bana 18 Feb 2022
A baby elephant in Lataguri Forest, West Bengal

[Book Review] An ecologist’s ode to his field assistant, elephants and Buxa

Renuka Kulkarni 16 Feb 2022

Pavagada solar park busts notions of renewable energy as inherently good

Arathi Menon 15 Feb 2022
Men carry baskets of tomatoes in a field adjacent to the solar park in Pavagada, Karnataka. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Mongabay.

Given land for power, Pavagada residents now powerless

Arathi Menon 14 Feb 2022

Demand for sea cucumbers turns India-Sri Lanka waters into trafficking hotspot

Malaka Rodrigo, Pragati Prava 11 Feb 2022
Bombay Stock Exchange.

With plans to standardise ESG rating, India’s market regulator takes a step towards sustainable finance

Kundan Pandey 10 Feb 2022
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