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India falls in climate performance rankings

Manish Chandra Mishra 20 Nov 2025
A laborer at Shivam Bricks in Gaya, where zigzag technology was installed in 2018 to reduce pollution. Image by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay

Brick kilns embrace zigzag design to cut pollution and boost efficiency

Manish Chandra Mishra 27 Aug 2024

India needs to face challenge of funding thermal power plant closure, says new report

Simrin Sirur 5 Oct 2023
A farmer tilling his sugarcane field at Karad in Maharashtra. Photo by Manish Kumar/Mongabay

Energy transition offers a ray of hope to farmers struggling in chilly winter

Manish Kumar, Kundan Pandey 28 Dec 2022
Transmission lines near a windfarm in Tamil Nadu. Photo by Priyanka Shankar/Mongabay.

[Podcast] GigaWhat: Upgrading the backbone of India’s power sector

Mayank Aggarwal, Kartik Chandramouli 6 Sep 2022
One of the many thermal power plants in Korba. Photo by Mayank Aggarwa;/Mongabay-India.

Why is there opposition to the proposed Electricity Amendment Bill?

Manish Kumar 30 Aug 2022
Electric scooters in the manufacturing process. One of the eight scenarios predicts 100 percent penetration of electric two-wheelers by 2027. Image by Gnoeee/Wikimedia commons

Report projects 100 percent electric two-wheeler penetration in India by 2027

Manish Chandra Mishra 26 Jul 2022
Cooling towers of a thermal power plant based in Haryana. Over the past two weeks, India witnessed an intense debate over the shortage of coal which many cautioned could lead to power cuts or blackout. Photo by Vikramdeep Sidhu/Wikimedia commons

India’s ‘coal shortage’ could set stage for overhaul of laws

Mayank Aggarwal 20 Oct 2021

India’s power consumption falls by 19 percent during COVID-19 lockdown

Mayank Aggarwal 23 Apr 2020