Women undertake most of the menial labour in traditional paddy cultivation, bearing the brunt of climate change while also unwittingly contributing to emissions. Studies highlight that women paddy ...

Climate change could shift the range of India’s Big Four venomous snakes towards human-dominated areas, increasing snakebite risks in northern and northeastern states. The study links climate, ...

Manish Chandra Mishra is an Assistant Editor at Mongabay India, currently based in Delhi. A multimedia journalist with over a decade of experience in mainstream media, he has established himself as a ...

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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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 ...

Solar parks need 7,000–20,000 litres of water per megawatt (MW) per wash. Many solar installations in India are located in arid and semi-arid areas bringing significant risk to the local ecosystem and ...

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 – ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The passage of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act of 2023 is now set to dramatically rework the landscape of forest conservation in India, ...

In 2019, Essel Mining & Industries Limited (EMIL), an Aditya Birla Group Company, won the Bunder diamond mine project in the Chhatarpur district of Madhya Pradesh. It is estimated that the Bunder ...