Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Vaishali Shroff’s Submerged Worlds and Other Amazing Stories of India’s Mighty Rivers is a deeply moving exploration of India’s rivers. Well-researched and readable stories take you through their ...

A research team is drilling boreholes in Mount Everest’s Western Cwm to measure glacier temperatures and understand why Himalayan glaciers are warming and melting faster than expected. Data from the ...

Dam for a dam On December 25, 2024, Xinhua, the official state news agency of China said the Chinese government had approved plans to build a 60,000 megawatt dam in Medog county, which, when built, ...

Mongabay India was presented the Greenaccord International Media Award on October 12, 2024, at the XVI Greenaccord International Forum for Information on Safeguard of Nature in Frascati, Italy. The ...

Muthalapozhy fishing harbour near the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Kerala has garnered attention for the repeated accidents and death of fishers at the harbour. Sand accumulation under the water ...

The periodic warming and cooling of ocean surface temperatures, a phenomenon known as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), contributes to intense heat waves in southwest India (SWI), a new study ...

Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh has a long-established leather industry with two major leather clusters, Jajmau and Unnao, that contribute significantly to the local economy. The legacy leather sector, ...

Like the famous novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by the Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, the slim and punchy little book, The Great Nicobar Betrayal, augurs a coming ...

Community members monitoring ecology in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve integrate traditional knowledge with modern scientific methods to monitor climate impacts on their forests, rivers, and farms.

Agrivoltaics, or harvesting crops and solar energy from the same plot of land, has been around in India for over a decade, but scalability remains a challenge. In the National Capital Region and ...

You’re listening to ‘ Everything Environment ‘ by Mongabay-India. This is Wild Frequencies, a three-part podcast mini-series. Kartik Chandramouli (KC): Hello and welcome back to episode 2 of Wild ...