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 ...

India is positioning itself as a global investment hub for artificial intelligence and data centres, with the latest gigawatt-scale investment in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Environmental concerns ...

The population of Asiatic lions in Gujarat has grown from 674 individuals to 891 between 2020 and 2025, according to the Gujarat Forest Department. From these, 394 were found in Gir National Park, Gir ...

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 ...

Tal Chhapar Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan was once a degraded grassland with its blackbuck population having to be fed food and water by the forest department. Restoration efforts in the grasslands, ...

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 ...

A new study shows that groundwater, not glaciers, is the lifeline of the Ganga river. Groundwater discharge increases the Ganga river’s volume by about 120% in the Gangetic Plains compared to its ...

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 ...

Initiated in the early 1970s, the Mandal dam remains unfinished, displacing hundreds of families without full compensation. Despite fresh clearances and reduced reservoir levels, locals say jobs, land ...

The activism around Kerala’s Silent Valley was a grassroots movement to protect the pristine forests from being submerged by a proposed hydroelectric dam, highlighting the conflict between ...

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 ...

Heavy rains in Nepal worsened flooding in Bihar, severely impacting villages between the Kosi river’s embankments, where around 10 lakh people reside. Structural constructions, narrowing river width, ...