If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study tracked sugarcane production trends across five districts in Maharashtra and Karnataka between 1999 and 2021, finding significant yield ...

Sneha Mahale is a Mumbai-based journalist and editor who covers climate change, wildlife, health, technology, and culture. Her work has been published in Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, New Indian ...

A study of the Indian Ocean humpback dolphins off Goa’s coast found that the dolphins socialised and foraged less when tourist boats were around and the probability of foraging increased around ...

Karnataka is the latest state to issue an advisory on planting Conocarpus trees, following prohibitory orders by the state governments of Gujarat, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. While ...

While India has expanded legal protections for sharks and rays, key breeding, nursery, and feeding habitats remain vulnerable. A new study has identified 11 Important Shark and Ray Areas in the Indian ...

Bengaluru’s record-breaking plantation drive has renewed debate over whether mass tree planting is the most effective way to restore urban ecosystems. The Miyawaki method can rapidly create dense ...

India is rapidly rolling out E20 as the default petrol blend, while considering even higher ethanol blends. Brazil is often held up as a model for India, but its ethanol system evolved over decades ...

Many Indo-Pacific finless porpoises die each year along Goa’s coast, but without a population baseline, their conservation status remains unknown. A new study found acoustic surveys detect finless ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Cicadas (Cicadoidea) are insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, known for their loud, distinctive calls and long underground life cycles. It is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On July 7, 2026, following intense monsoon rain, a massive slope failure hit the tunnel project near Meenakshi Bridge at Kalladi, near Meppadi. The ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In 1994, a U.S. company and the United States Department of Agriculture secured a European patent for a method of using neem extracts to control ...

K. A. Shaji is a South India-based developmental journalist. A regular contributor to Mongabay-India, he is now working in areas of environmental protection, social advocacy and grassroots level ...