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Farmers display their pearl millet crop. Representative image by ICRISAT via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Diversifying beyond rice to cut losses and improve alternative cereal yields

Sharmila Vaidyanathan 1 Dec 2025
A foundry in Hyderabad. Corporations in India are largely supportive of science-aligned climate policy, including those in the metals, mining, and energy sectors. Image by Rajesh Pamnani via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Corporate climate strategy needs greater policy engagement, says analysis

Simrin Sirur 29 Jul 2025
An electric vehicle charging station in Begumpet, Hyderabad. Image by iMahesh via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Budget boosts EV battery manufacturing plans, but a big leap needed for success [Commentary]

Suresh Seshadri 19 Mar 2025

Fisherwomen ride the rough waves while India’s blue economy blooms

Priyamvada Kowshik 3 Feb 2025

[Explainer] What are fish refugia?

Kundan Pandey 24 Jan 2025
traditional khoti fishing west bengal

Policy gaps are failing traditional fishing communities

Kundan Pandey 23 Jan 2025

Conservation drones need to overcome some takeoff troubles

Laasya Shekhar 19 Aug 2024

[Commentary] Ambiguity on fund allocation shrouds Project Tiger and Project Elephant merger

Akshay Chettri, Ishika Patodi 23 Jan 2024

Marine fisheries policy moving against the current of scientific recommendations

Kundan Pandey 22 Jan 2024

[Interview] Conservationist MK Ranjitsinh Jhala on the need for a grassland policy in India

Sahana Ghosh, Kartik Chandramouli 24 Mar 2023
Electrically-powered automobile in Tamil Nadu. Photo by த*உழவன்/Wikimedia Commons.

Incentives to boost demand, increase in e-buses in Tamil Nadu’s latest EV policy

Manish Kumar 9 Mar 2023
A fisherwoman pulling up her Chinese net using the traditional Khu-il Chingba method in front of a homestay. Photo by Victor Ningthoujam.

[Editorial] Five years of Mongabay-India

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 16 Jan 2023

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

Sahana Ghosh 5 Aug 2022
A protest by environmentalists in Colombo.

Environmental policy failures contributed to Sri Lanka’s people power revolution

Malaka Rodrigo 27 Jul 2022

India’s women and children highly vulnerable to climate change yet missing in climate policies

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Mar 2022

India’s new compensatory afforestation rules dilute rights of forest dwellers

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Aug 2018