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Local women collecting coal from an abandoned mine in Kotma for cooking.

How unplanned coal mine closures in India are affecting dependent communities, especially women

Shuchita Jha and Flavia Lopes 21 Mar 2024

Reviving anyat millet to reconnect a community with its culinary roots

Sanskrita Bharadwaj 18 Dec 2023
Groups of four women form a forest patrol team in Kodalpalli village in Odisha’s Nayagarh district.

The Forest Rights Act sees outcome in a women-led forest stewardship scheme in Odisha

Malavika Vyawahare 27 Nov 2023
Image shows a woman sitting in the driver's seat of a jeep

Women take the wheel for safer tourism in Satpura Tiger Reserve

Prashant Kumar Dubey 21 Mar 2023

[Interview] Just representation in climate policies empowers women, says Saudamini Das

Sahana Ghosh 18 Aug 2022

[Photos] Maharashtra’s female farm workforce struggles in the shadows of floods

Sanket Jain 23 Jun 2022

[Webinar] Is India’s clean energy quest inclusive of women?

Team Mongabay-India 3 Mar 2022

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

Azera Parveen Rahman 1 Mar 2022

Gond women take charge of water and farming in their village

Jigyasa Mishra 1 Feb 2022

Agrobiodiversity initiatives open women’s horizons in Kerala

Mahima Jain 15 Apr 2020

Chhattisgarh’s tribal women keep vigil on their forests

Manish Chandra Mishra 14 Apr 2020

“Ladies First!”: Women fight against solid waste dumping in this Himachal Pradesh village

Vaishnavi Rathore 13 Apr 2020

Ganjam fisherwomen unite to get back fish trade from monopolistic traders

Priya Ranjan Sahu 2 Apr 2020

A long road to clean energy for rural women in Chhattisgarh

Asha Verma 11 Jan 2019

Stories that highlighted the intrinsic link between women and biodiversity in 2018

Sahana Ghosh 31 Dec 2018

The women in Assam who live alongside rhinos

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 30 Nov 2017