Environment and Elections News

This series was setup to examine if the environment played a role during the 2019 national elections. We are now conducting introspective analyses about the election results, before examining environment related policy of the new government. The India Climate Collaborative has been supporting this series. However, the ICC does not have editorial input regarding the content of Mongabay-India stories. The story idea, production and publishing was entirely by Mongabay-India.

India will go to vote amid sweltering heat; experts call for public awareness to mitigate impacts

Simrin Sirur 5 Apr 2024

India will go to vote amid sweltering heat; experts call for public awareness to mitigate impacts

Simrin Sirur 5 Apr 2024

Parliamentary discussions related to climate change are largely missing in India, finds study

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022

Demanding PESA rights, Jharkhand’s tribal people plan to boycott panchayat polls

Md Asghar Khan 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

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

Long-term plot census, 2020 Sigur Plateau Tamil Nadu. Photo by Karthik Teegalapalli.

Climate mitigation should not come at cost of biodiversity conservation, warns tropical savannah ecologist

Sahana Ghosh 15 Dec 2021

Goa wants to restart mining. What does Goa’s youth want?

Supriya Vohra 10 Dec 2021

[Commentary] Onam is a day to remember the environment to economics connect in Kerala

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Aug 2020

As assembly election nears, Kerala government announces environmentally controversial projects

K.A. Shaji 14 Jul 2020

‘E’ for elections. ‘E’ for environment: Our top stories exploring where environment featured in the 2019 elections

Mayank Aggarwal 26 Dec 2019

Climate change threatens Wayanad’s agrarian and tourism prospects

K.A. Shaji 31 Oct 2019

Wanted: An urgent political saviour for river Yamuna

Hridayesh Joshi 25 Oct 2019

Can a new elephant reserve address human-elephant interaction in Chhattisgarh?

Asha Verma 24 Oct 2019

Monitoring monkey business in Delhi

Hridayesh Joshi 23 Oct 2019

Mica scavenging in Jharkhand destroys lives and environment

Gurvinder Singh 22 Oct 2019

Political parties claim credit for reduction in Delhi pollution, ahead of assembly elections

Hridayesh Joshi 21 Oct 2019

Survival, not elections, on the agenda in this Maharashtra village

Kanchan Srivastava 18 Oct 2019

Mountain of waste in Aravallis casts a shadow in villages nearby

Hridayesh Joshi 18 Oct 2019

Sky-bound Navi Mumbai airport leaves project-affected behind

Nikhil S. Dixit 17 Oct 2019

Protesting against neglect, Manibeli village in the Narmada valley decides to boycott Maharashtra polls

Kanchan Srivastava 16 Oct 2019

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