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 ...

Inhalable microplastics are a subset of airborne microplastics. While airborne microplastics are typically less than 5 mm in size, inhalable microplastics are 500 times smaller, at less than 10 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tilapia are among several fish species belonging to the family Cichlidae, native to Africa and the Middle East. Their ability to adapt to a wide variety of conditions, their omnivorous food habits and ...

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, ...

A recent expedition by researchers and filmmakers into Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh yielded startling results, including the identification of several species new to science. The Siang river ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

Over the past 12 years, the residents of Badakot have converted degraded land into a 25-acre mangrove forest that protects their village from eroding away. Bijay Kumar Kabi led the community to ...