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Can organic farmers’ markets encourage chemical-free farming?

Arathi Menon 15 Oct 2024
A skyline of Kolkata. City-level climate planning is gaining momentum across India, with Kolkata among the cities planning to create a Climate Action Plan. Image by Subhrajyoti07 via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Indian cities witness a growing momentum for climate action

Kundan Pandey 6 Sep 2024

Uniting traditional wisdom with modern science, barefoot ecologists record climate impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 14 Aug 2024

Trust, cost go greater depths to sustain unscientific water divining practice

Simrin Sirur 12 Aug 2024
A gardener tends to the plants in the garden adjacent to the waste segregation and recovery center at Oottupattarai in Coonoor. Image by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Mongabay.

A blooming tale of transformation

Arathi Menon 23 Jul 2024

Tamil Nadu’s grazing ban threatens rights, livelihoods of forest dwellers

George Rajasekaran 28 Jun 2024
Azolla has thrived even in the hottest summer on Maruthachalam's farm, growing robustly under the shade of coconut trees thanks to the natural sand and fresh water available on his four-acre organic farm. Photo by Gowthami Subramaniam/Mongabay.

Farmers embrace Azolla, a fern, as low-cost livestock feed amid fodder shortage

Gowthami Subramaniam 13 Jun 2024
Tourists gather near the coast at Kaniyakumari.

Plans to explore oil and gas in biodiversity-rich Wadge Bank raises concerns

K.A. Shaji 29 May 2024
Tender coconut waste piled up on the roadside in Nangal, Punjab. Photo by Ravleen Kaur.

Tender coconut waste proves to be a tough nut to crack

Ravleen Kaur 3 May 2024

Nilgiri pipit seeks better status as habitat shrinks

Arathi Menon 9 Apr 2024

Tilapia, highly adaptable and invasive fish, found growing in marine waters

Sneha Mahale 19 Mar 2024

Scientists leap beyond Latin to give local flair to species names

Laasya Shekhar 7 Mar 2024

India adds five more wetlands to its list of Ramsar sites

Simrin Sirur 2 Feb 2024
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[Explainer] What can lichens tell us about atmospheric pollution?

Arathi Menon 31 Jan 2024

Restaurants fuelling demand for shark meat in India, finds study

Simrin Sirur 24 Jan 2024

Marine fisheries policy moving against the current of scientific recommendations

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024

A village nurtures traditional food systems in response to climate change

Catherine Gilon 10 Jan 2024

Oil spill in Ennore brings fishing to a standstill

Laasya Shekhar 29 Dec 2023

Pythons return home, slowly but surely, finds a new study

Arathi Menon 6 Dec 2023