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Green building regulations give impetus to sustainable data centers in India

Rashmi Singh 28 Feb 2023

[Commentary] Decentralised waste water treatment systems to improve water security

Somnath Pal and Charu Bhanot 23 Jan 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

16 Jan 2023
Painted storks in Kazhuveli. Photo by Bupesh Gupta.

[Commentary] Tamil Nadu needs an innovative wetland conservation strategy starting with Kazhuveli

Kannan Vaithianathan 12 Jan 2023
Malvan’s fisherwomen are mainly involved in ancillary processes. Once their husbands return with the catch, the fisherwomen set out to cut, clean, market and even bargain with customers and agents or middlemen, known as dalals who help them sell their fish in the wholesale market. Photo by Manjula Nair/Mongabay.

Artisanal fishers struggle in Malvan

Manjula Nair 27 Dec 2022

From paddy to palm oil: Telangana focuses on water intensive crops

Manish Kumar 6 Dec 2022
An artifical water harvesting pond in Rajasthan.

[Commentary] Traditional water harvesting structures in the Thar desert are vanishing

Rohit Jindal 17 Oct 2022
A woman doing farming in Ghoshal, a village in Lahaul valley. Photo by Anupama Shashni, Panjab University.

Farming becomes tough in Himachal’s cold desert with changing climate and crop pattern

Vivek Gupta 1 Sep 2022

Unpacking the presence of microplastics in the Bay of Bengal

Sahana Ghosh 25 Aug 2022
People walking on a road adjacent to the MSW dump

Untreated legacy waste is polluting the sensitive wetland ecosystem of Deepor Beel

Barasha Das 24 Aug 2022

[Commentary] Scope for more nuanced reporting by media on the Brahmaputra river basin

Sumit Vij 9 Aug 2022
Wetlands near Doriya River of Majuli Island in North Eastern State Assam, India.

[Commentary] Latest wetland mapping data underscores the need to step up conservation action

Ritesh Kumar 11 Jul 2022
Effluents from factories can be seen flowing on village roads in the Kundli industrial area. Photo by Sat Singh/Mongabay.

Industrial water pollution threatens residents in Haryana’s Kundli area

Sat Singh 24 Jun 2022

Farm to Fashion: How national institutions are integrating sustainability in curriculum

Tazeen Qureshy 20 Jun 2022

Lucknow, a case study for permanently disappearing aquifers in north India

Monika Mondal 16 Jun 2022

[Commentary] Water tariff could be a tool to improve water use efficiency in domestic sector

Apoorva Bamal, Niyati Seth 7 Jun 2022
A farmer showing how continuous waterlogging has turned his land barren at Imlota village of Charkhi Dadri district in Haryana. Photo by Sat Singh.

Waterlogging pushes Haryana farmers to sell agricultural land, take up odd jobs

Sat Singh 27 Apr 2022
The Mangrave: A community art project by The Earthivist Collective highlights the plight of this important ecosystem on the outskirts of Panaji. Photo by The Earthivist Collective

[Commentary] A city on marsh: Why Indian coastal cities need to design and build with nature

Aaron Savio Lobo, Ashali Bhandari, Karthikeyan Kuppu 22 Mar 2022

Debate over Mullaperiyar dam’s safety continues with opposing views in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

K.A. Shaji 9 Feb 2022

Glacier loss pushing India’s mountain region towards water insecurity

Kapil Kajal 13 Dec 2021