If you liked this story, share it with other people. Waste is often seen as a local service issue. It is collected by municipalities, handled by sanitation workers, discussed in ward meetings, and ...

Sneha Mahale is a Mumbai-based journalist and editor who covers climate change, wildlife, health, technology, and culture. Her work has been published in Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, New Indian ...

Meena Menon, Ph.D., Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute at University of Leeds, is an independent journalist, researcher and author.

A new study finds that more than half of all urban blue space users across India’s cities forage frequently for nutrition, income and food security. As Indian cities restore and beautify their lakes ...

India is the world’s third largest producer of e-waste, yet the informal waste collectors have no substantial legal recognition under the country’s formal e-waste rules. Some NGOs and social ...

Arabica and Robusta, which dominate global coffee production, are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, including heat stress, erratic rainfall and pest pressures. Lesser-known species such as ...

A young male cheetah made a 150-km journey from Kuno National Park to Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, exposing the challenges of managing free-ranging cheetahs in India. Despite being released into the ...

Across Kerala, traditional agroecosystems have been steadily reshaped by land fragmentation, road expansion, and the shift from mixed homesteads to more enclosed forms of landholding. Indigenous mango ...

In Puducherry and Karaikal, communities protested against India’s coastal zoning policy map prepared on a 1:25,000 scale as it missed several commons and eco-critical zones. Smaller scale maps in the ...

A study recorded 18 wild species using underpasses along a stretch of the Delhi–Dehradun Economic Corridor. Noise and human activity shaped how animals used crossings, with elephants, sambar and ...

Manish Chandra Mishra is an Assistant Editor at Mongabay-India and an environmental journalist with over a decade of experience in print, digital, and multimedia journalism. He reports on climate ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The name vayavy (pronounced vah-yhav-yah) means ‘northwest’ in both Konkani and Marathi, derived from the species’ distribution in the northern ...