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Inside Goa and Karnataka’s conflict on Mhadei river water

Meera Mohanty 7 Jul 2023
A busy day in Pune's APMC with boxes of mangoes arriving from Kaonkan and Karnataka. Photo by Hiren Kumar Bose.

Unseasonal rain, temperature variations affect Alphonso yield and increase prices in Maharashtra

Hiren Kumar Bose 15 Jun 2023
Bajra harvested at Madgyal, Jath taluka. Photo from Samata Farmers Group.

How a drought-prone village in Maharashtra attained agricultural success with millets

Hiren Kumar Bose 26 May 2023
A tiger at at Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve, Chandrapur. Photo by Akshit Deshlande/ Wikimedia Commons.

Rising tiger population is said to aggravate human-tiger conflict in Chandrapur, Gadchiroli

Saurabh Katkurwar 18 May 2023

Community participation helps a Maharashtra village become flood-free after years

Hiren Kumar Bose 2 Mar 2023
Grover’s vineyard in Karnataka. Photo from Grover's vineyard.

How wineries in India are adapting to warmer winters and erratic rain

Shubhanjana Das 23 Feb 2023
Image shows a man and a woman standing in their farm

Despite cultural, technical and other challenges, Kolhapur makes progress in adoption of biogas-linked toilets

Ravleen Kaur 6 Feb 2023

[Podcast] Imprints: Sifting through microfossils with Rajani Panchang

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 20 Jan 2023

How an equitable model of irrigation is changing this drought-prone Maharashtra region

Supriya Vohra 30 Dec 2022
Malvan’s fisherwomen are mainly involved in ancillary processes. Once their husbands return with the catch, the fisherwomen set out to cut, clean, market and even bargain with customers and agents or middlemen, known as dalals who help them sell their fish in the wholesale market. Photo by Manjula Nair/Mongabay.

Artisanal fishers struggle in Malvan

Manjula Nair 27 Dec 2022

In India’s ambitious ethanol plan, sugarcane farmers feel they’ve got the short end of the stick

Manish Kumar 22 Dec 2022

Drought conditions force Marathwada farmers to migrate for work as sugarcane cutters

Supriya Vohra 20 Dec 2022
Image shows a man standing in a sugarcane field with his arm raised

India aims to go big on sugarcane-based ethanol, but water intensity of the crop throws up concerns

Supriya Vohra 14 Dec 2022

[Podcast] Imprints: Lake and archive diving with Atreyee Bhattacharya

Sahana Ghosh and Kartik Chandramouli 9 Dec 2022
Image shows a giant squirrel on a tree branch

How preserving forests could save the Indian giant squirrel

Sneha Mahale 23 Nov 2022

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

Manjula Nair 21 Nov 2022
A huge rock art of an elephant in the district of Ratnagiri. The proposed crude oil refinery complex in the region poses threat to the heritage sites. Photo from Nisargyatri Sanstha.

Oil refinery sparks protests over livelihood concerns in Ratnagiri

Abhijeet Gurjar 17 Nov 2022
Image shows 4 tigers bathing in a pond in India

Concern over translocation of tigers in Maharashtra, as conditions in new areas ‘unfavourable’

Saurabh Katkurwar 16 Nov 2022
Sunil Patil mixes cattle feed. Heat stress has resulted in low milk production. Patil worries about the rise in rates of cattle feed. Photo by Abhijeet Gurjar/Mongabay.

Heat stress impacts milk production in Maharashtra’s dairy cattle

Abhijeet Gurjar 10 Nov 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