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 ...

Indian wildlife conservationist Vivek Menon has been elected as the new Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. He is the first Asian to lead the commission. Menon aims to improve how the ...

Once hunted and butchered for oil and meat, the whale shark is now being rescued by the fishers in the Arabian sea coast. The conservation movement that started in Gujarat has now reached the ...

The Ganga river is experiencing its most severe drought ever recorded, with the steepest decline in streamflow in over 1,300 years. Reduced monsoon precipitation, global warming, and groundwater ...

On August 5, Dharali, a village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, was hit by a flash flood in the Himalayan stream Kheer Gad, leaving at least 68 people missing and one dead. Rapid construction over the ...

A snow leopard population and distribution assessment has found almost 500 of the elusive big cats in trans-Himalayan Ladakh, making up 68% of India’s snow leopard population. The findings show that ...

Farmers in Burj village, a few hundred meters from the India-Pakistan border, have farmlands straddling both countries and face constant challenges due to the proximity of conflict. The farmers ...

Solar geoengineering is a controversial technology with the potential to block some of the sun’s radiation and cool the planet. Solar geoengineering, is still a “fringe” topic among the Indian ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), an organisation dedicated to developing technologies for exploring and harnessing ocean ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On December 26, 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands changed forever. A tremor stirred 30 kilometres deep beneath the ocean floor in the Sunda ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Schools in India have seen increasing disruptions due to extreme weather events, over the last few years. Many Indian states witnessed long spells ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Mohammad Shakeel Ahmad, 34, who works at the King’s International Tannery based in Unnao, points to an unusually empty section of the facility ...