Ambikapur, located in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, is a small city that houses about 200,000 people.In the recent years, the city has become synonymous with ‘cleanliness’, as the decentralised ...

The quiet do-ers. Jockim, 45, has a quiet, confident presence. He takes a long time to open up and even after that, he speaks little. He is well aware of the role he and his people play in keeping ...

The Indian summer monsoon is a vast weather event that is crucial to the 1.39 billion people that live in India, as most of the rainfall (70-90%) that the country receives, is during this period, ...

Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – with the frequency and intensity of many natural ...

The allocation of lands for new commercial coal mines is likely to renew issues related to the creation of land banks in Jharkhand. Common lands that people use have been transferred to land banks ...

Colonisation of the forests devastated them and their inhabitants, the forest dwellers and wildlife. To rein in the recalcitrant state governments for their unchecked forest diversion, the union ...

India is not only a major source, but also a transit and a destination country for trafficked wildlife and wildlife products. International wildlife trafficking into and out of India mainly occurs ...

The case of unclassed forests. Almost a quarter of India’s forest cover occurs on less than 8% of the country’s territory within the remote, mountainous regions of northeast India. Forest covers much ...

This is the first article in a two-part series on lessons from Odanthurai’s ambitious renewable energy experiments. Part Two will highlight the attempt at a community-owned windmill that faces an ...

Creating policies that ease ‘big’ growth. Karnataka’s new industrial policy also aims to make land acquisition easier, removing restrictions on land conversion and exempting industries from the ...

You’re listening to ‘Everything Environment‘ by Mongabay-India. This is Wild Frequencies, a three-part podcast mini-series.. Kartik Chandramouli (KC): Hello and welcome back to episode 2 of Wild ...

Have the species adapted to the turbines? During a visit to the districts of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Kanniyakumari, when Mongabay-India asked the local people if they observed bird/bat collisions ...