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Following the shipwreck, plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, began washing up along Kerala’s southern beaches.

Oil and plastic pollution from shipwreck raises concerns, legal scrutiny in India

Max Martin 9 Jul 2025
What it's like to live with tigers

What it’s like to live with tigers

Arathi Menon 9 Jul 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India podcast ‘Wild Frequencies’ wins audio reporting award

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2025
A hunter in Nagaland with a gun and barking deer. Image courtesy of Satem Longchar.

Traditional hunting shifts with access to cheap guns in India’s Nagaland: Study

Shradha Triveni 4 Jul 2025
Red-crowned roofed turtles released into the river have been tagged with transmitters to monitor their safety and migration. Image courtesy of Turtle Survival Alliance Foundation India.

Tracking the return of critically endangered turtles in India’s Ganga River

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

From intern to Mongabay India director in less than 4 years: Sandhya Sekar’s journey

Rhett Ayers Butler 3 Jul 2025
Year-round, the Katakhal carries pitch-black water to the Akhaura locality. A fisher sets up his fishing net.

Bangladeshi village grapples with contaminated water flowing in from India

Abu Siddique, Sadiqur Rahman 3 Jul 2025
Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Why is star anise disappearing from northeastern India?

Barasha Das 26 Jun 2025
Artist Bhajju Shyam paints himself immersed in nature, playing the Bana and singing traditional songs. Photo by Manish Chandra Mishra/Mongabay India.

Mongabay India on making environmental stories accessible in Hindi

Mongabay.com 25 Jun 2025
Maruti Chitampalli. Screenshot courtesy of Wildlife of Vidarbha

Maruti Bhujangrao Chitampalli, sage of the forest, died on June 18th, aged 93

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2025

Rediscovering the biodiversity of India’s Siang Valley

Rhett Ayers Butler 23 Jun 2025

Twin ship disasters in India threaten widespread pollution on Sri Lankan coasts

Malaka Rodrigo 19 Jun 2025
A sarus crane pair sings a duet. Image by Ad031259 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Unique notes in sarus crane duets help distinguish sexes for conservation

Mongabay.com 16 Jun 2025
Wild Frequencies

Mongabay India wins best science podcast at Publisher Podcast Awards

Mongabay.com 12 Jun 2025
A snow leopard in Nepal

Snow leopards frequently cross Nepal, India, China borders, study finds

Bibek Bhandari 12 Jun 2025
Mongabay podcasts

With offerings in 4 languages, Mongabay’s podcasts expand global reach

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2025
Rescuers evacuate people from a flooded hospital following landslides and flash flooding in India's northeast state of Manipur, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Donald Sairem)

Heavy rains inundate northeast India

Kristine Sabillo 6 Jun 2025
Clouded leopard carrying a Bengal slow loris. Image courtesy of Digboi Forest Division.

Clouded leopard seen preying on Bengal slow loris in rare photograph

Mongabay.com 5 Jun 2025
Containers floating at the site of the shipwreck. Image by Spokesperson of the Indian Navy via X.

Cargo ship carrying ‘hazardous material’ capsizes off India coast

Mongabay.com 3 Jun 2025
Valmik Thapar. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

Valmik Thapar, India’s tiger man, died on May 31st, aged 73

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 May 2025
Gopi Warrier in Kerala in May 2025. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

Rigorous, not righteous: How Gopi Warrier helped build Mongabay India’s newsroom

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 May 2025
Banner image: The Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa captured by the Pléiades Neo satellite. Image courtesy of the Airbus Foundation and Connected Conservation Foundation.

‘Satellites for Biodiversity’ upgrades with new projects and launches insight hub

Kristine Sabillo 26 May 2025
Radheshyam Bishnoi in 2021. From his Instagram.

Radheshyam Bishnoi, protector of India’s wildlife, died on May 24, 2025, aged 28

Rhett Ayers Butler 24 May 2025
Inside the human-bear conflict in northern India

Inside the human-bear conflict in northern India

Shaz Syed 21 May 2025
Under-construction residential buildings in Kolkata. Image by Biswarup Ganguly via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

India sets construction waste recycling targets with new rules

Mongabay.com 21 May 2025
Sandhya Sekar in Kerala, India in 2025; Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler.

How Mongabay India took root: Interview with Sandhya Sekar

Rhett Ayers Butler 21 May 2025
Student volunteers with trash collected during the 2024 Himalayan Cleanup campaign. Image courtesy of The Himalayan Cleanup.

F&B packaging fuels growing plastic waste crisis in Indian Himalayas: Report

Shreya Dasgupta 20 May 2025
Greater adjutant storks photographed in Assam, India.

In India, folklore is a tool that helps women save the greater adjutant stork

Angana Chakrabarti 15 May 2025
A traditional shade-grown coffee plantation in the Western Ghats. Image by Anand Osuri via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Seeds rescued from India’s coffee farms could help forest restoration

Mongabay.com 8 May 2025
Rinchin Jomaba. Chef, Damu's Kitchen.How a remote diner in India is fueling a culinary and ecological revival

How a remote diner in India is fueling a culinary and ecological revival

Barasha Das 23 Apr 2025
A siamang gibbon seized in Chennai, India in August 2024, along with turtles and pythons. It was being carried in the baggage of a passenger travelling from Bangkok.

Illegal trafficking of siamang gibbons is a concerning and underreported crisis (commentary)

Sinan Serhadli 18 Apr 2025
Daripalli Ramaiah. Image courtesy of Ministry of Jal Shakti, India

Daripalli Ramaiah, India’s tree man, died April 12, aged 87

Rhett Ayers Butler 15 Apr 2025

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