Azera Parveen Rahman is an independent writer and editor specialising in stories at the intersection of environment, health, development, and culture. She writes for diverse media outlets and consults ...

Kartik Chandramouli is a Mumbai-based multimedia editor and journalist. As the Senior Digital Editor at Mongabay India, he leads audio and visual reporting on the environment, collaborating with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for Pune’s River Rejuvenation Project in March, announcing the commencement of the ambitious project that aims to redesign and reengineer ...

Dharnai village in Bihar came into limelight in 2014 when the village got a solar mini-grid and was projected as the state’s “first solar village”. However, after three years due to lack of ...

Marine heat waves are events where ocean temperatures rise to extreme levels and hold steady for at least five days. These heat waves, that occur over the ocean, are likely to extend to 220-250 days a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Andaman and the Nicobar Islands, as also the Lakshadweep archipelago, both hundreds of kilometres away from mainland India, are battling pressures ...

Some 100 million people in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, depend on water from springs for drinking, cooking, sanitation, livestock rearing and minor irrigation. Nearly half of the springs in the Indian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This story is Part 2 of a three-part series about the advances in agricultural technology in India. It discusses the commonly used agricultural ...

Sindhudurg, the southernmost district in Maharashtra, covers only 3.8 percent of the total mangrove vegetation in the state. However, with occurrences of some rare and endangered species, it is the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A sudden whirlpool in the usually calm waters surrounding the hills of Meghalaya can mean only one thing – a school of frenzied chocolate mahseer, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Five years ago, Kalki Subramaniam, a Coimbatore-based climate activist, began raising awareness about the impacts of climate change and ...