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.

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

India’s millennium city is choking

Salt pans save Mumbai from floods. So why are they under threat?

India’s megacities, Mumbai and Delhi, sitting on a pile of waste

The invisible victims of an unfinished city

Politics in Maharashtra elections skirt around environmental issues

Aarey “forest” has fired-up Mumbai’s poll scene

Ready to lose life but not land for the bullet train, say Maharashtra’s farmers and tribals

The burning coalfields of Jharia belch poison for local residents

Dam mismanagement worsens impact of extreme rainfall in Maharashtra

Ken-Betwa river linking project may be economically unviable, says Supreme Court’s committee

Community initiatives tackle climate change in Ladakh village

Still charging: India’s electric vehicle plan

Dammed and mined, Narmada River can no longer support her people

Extreme rainfall devastates Kodagu yet again

Government suggests spring rejuvenation programme for water security

Amaravati capital city project: From utopia to an uncertain future

Mumbai’s fishers relieved after courts pause the coastal road project

[Commentary] Does India’s tiger conservation policy impact local people and the forest?

Save tiger reserves and reap trillions in economic benefits, says report

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