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a solar farm by Vinaykumar8687 via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY-SA4.0).

Solar farm expansion in India brings concerns of reckless herbicide use

Mongabay.com 13 Mar 2025

As Sri Lanka’s rail tracks continue to claim elephant lives, experts suggest solutions

Malaka Rodrigo 7 Mar 2025
Image of two feral horses. Image by Dhruba Jyoti Baruah via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Feral horses find a home in India’s protected areas

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2025
Dr. Ajith Kumar. Photo by Ishwar Narayanan

Indian wildlife biologist Ajith Kumar has died

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Mar 2025
Image of fisherwomen selling fish at a market in Kerala. Image by India Water Portal via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

India’s fisherwomen getting left behind by blue economy policies

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2025
Image of a Madras hedgehog by Santhosh Krishnan13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The rarely seen Madras hedgehog in India is also poorly studied

Mongabay.com 26 Feb 2025

Photo series on Himalayan water-saving ice stupas wins global award

Shanna Hanbury 18 Feb 2025

Wild Targets

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Rice fields of India host valuable, but disappearing, wild edibles

Mongabay.com 17 Feb 2025

Indian villages seek to protect ecosystem by opting out of state’s development push

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2025

Indian town trials virtual solar fences to reduce conflict with elephants

Mongabay.com 4 Feb 2025
Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in India? | Wild Targets

Why is this snake one of the most trafficked species in the world? | Wild Targets

Shatabdi Chakrabarti 29 Jan 2025
An agile gibbon in Berlin Zoo.

Increase in gibbon trafficking into India has conservationists worried

Spoorthy Raman 29 Jan 2025
Coal miners in Meghalaya, India.

Coal gasification, an old technology, is quietly expanding across Asia

Nithin Coca 21 Jan 2025
Monpura Island. Image courtesy of Ammar Bin Asad.

River culture is the rhythmic pulse of the Bengal Delta (commentary)

Umme Sayeda 17 Jan 2025

Serious groundwater contamination in several parts of India: Report

Mongabay.com 16 Jan 2025
A firefighter in the Xingu Indigenous Territory.

World’s record heat is worsening air pollution and health in Global South

Simrin Sirur (with Orji Sunday and Karla Mendes) 13 Jan 2025

India’s latest forest cover report hints at countrywide degradation

Mongabay.com 7 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024

‘Wild Frequencies’: Podcast miniseries from India explores wild animal sounds

Mongabay.com 30 Dec 2024

Golden jackals thrive in mangroves of Indian megacity Mumbai: Study

Mongabay.com 27 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Across continents, Mongabay fellows share insights from reporting in the field

Michael Esquer, Swati Thapa, Tarinipre Francis 23 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Ranthambore tiger by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

‘Missing’ tigers in India: Tracking gaps or oversight?

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2024
Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024

Camera traps, drones meant for wildlife can ‘spy’ on women: Study

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2024
A coral reef in the shallow waters of the Andaman Sea.

India advances deep-sea mining technology in the Andaman Sea

Priyanka Shankar 21 Nov 2024
Banner image of a herd of elephants at Jim Corbett National Park in northern India. Image by A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Genome study shows five distinct elephant populations in India

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2024
Banner image of tropical storm Trami via PAGASA.

Tropical cyclones pummel Philippines, India

Kristine Sabillo 25 Oct 2024
Oracle in Rumtse village, Ladakh, India, where decision-making involves spirits of the land and water.

If all life mattered, what would decision-making look like? (Analysis)

Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari 25 Oct 2024

Four of a kind: King cobra is a quad of species, not one, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Oct 2024

Mongabay India wins Greenaccord award for environment journalism

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Oct 2024

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