The draft bill aims to modernise India’s pesticide law, but experts warn that a booming industry is being favoured over ...

The Aravalli mountain range acts as a natural barrier against dust from the Thar desert on the west, but mining and human encroachments are steadily degrading this protection. The lack of a strict ...

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and ...

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Muppandal in Tamil Nadu is home to India’s largest operational onshore wind farm in terms of installed capacity. Over three decades, there are visible social impacts on the people living in the ...

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 has lost $127.3 billion (Rs. 8.3 trillion) in the last 60 years to invasive alien species, making the South Asian nation the second most invasion-cost bearing country after the United States, a ...

Ambikapur, a city in Chhattisgarh, created its own decentralised waste management plan that not only minimises waste that reaches a landfill site, but also generates revenue for the local municipal ...

A recent study found Lantana camara, a tropical American shrub, has invaded more than 40 percent of India’s tiger range. The Shivalik hills, Central India, and Southern Western Ghats are the worst hit ...

The National Tiger Conservation Authority has proposed to notify the Dibang Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve. If this materialises, it will be India’s first high altitude tiger reserve. However, ...

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 ...

The villages of Loliem and Poingunim in south Goa petitioned the union environment ministry, demanding they be included in the upcoming Eco Sensitive Areas notification. A proposed Film City on a ...