First ever photographic evidence of a clouded leopard preying on a Bengal slow loris has emerged from Dehing Patkai National ...

A Liberian-flagged ship sank off Kochi, leaking oil and cargo. While the spill is contained, missing hazardous materials may ...

Simrin is a Staff Writer for Mongabay India, where she writes about climate change, national environmental policy, energy transitions, as well as the impacts of pollution on humans and nature. Before ...

Climate adaptation is highly understudied in India, with the term often being mentioned without capturing details or impacts. A review of hundreds of papers on adaptation, published from 2017-2023, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. According to a report by the non-profit organisation Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group, India’s VCM market has seen phenomenal growth in ...

Cotton is one of India’s top agricultural exports and between 2011-12 and 2020-21, the country’s cotton exports consumed roughly 40 trillion litres of water. Top cotton-producing districts in ...

The global emergency, disaster, and recovery management sector employs over 2.2 million people, with approximately 97,800 new positions added in the last year alone. India is emerging with ...

India’s first open-access native plant germination database, developed by ERA-India, shares methods for growing over 465 native species. Resilient and better adapted to local conditions, native plants ...

The National Mission on Natural Farming aims to eliminate the ill effects of chemical farming and promote sustainable farming. However, lack of market and sufficient prices are emerging as some of the ...

Protected areas only cover about 5.02 percent of India’s total area. Consequently, a large percentage of India’s wildlife live outside protected boundaries. This gives rise to situations spanning ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “Mangoes grew in abundance then. We had plenty for neighbours, relatives, ourselves, and still enough for selling locally,” he recalls a time over ...

India’s coastline length has been revised from 7,516.60 kilometres to 11,084.50 kilometres. The increase is mainly due to a change in calculation methodology and scale. The revised coastline could ...