In this interview with Mongabay India, filmmaker Sandesh Kadur talks about filming for his latest documentary feature titled ‘Nilgiris: A shared wilderness’ about India’s first biosphere reserve.

Using high resolution satellite imagery and an artificial intelligence (AI) model, researchers have developed a new dataset that shows global drivers of deforestation at a one kilometre spatial ...

Tamil Nadu recently released a block-level analysis of how land use change is impacting heat across the state.

India's progress in integrating climate education into the mainstream syllabus has been slow, but some educators are working ...

The Telangana government moots the construction of an eco-park in response to protests against the auctioning of the Kancha Gachibowli Forest.

Plasticulture, the application of synthetic polymer-based technologies in agriculture, has found wide ranging uses, making it an integral part of food production today.

In Bihar, the brick industry consumes the most coal after thermal power plants. It also contributes significantly to air pollution. Since 2016, the Bihar state government has been pushing for kilns to ...

The Indus river dolphin is found only in the lower Indus river system in Pakistan and India. Since the 1870s, its habitat has shrunk by 80%, leaving around 2,000 individuals today.

Agrivoltaics in India faces scalability challenges despite a decade of trials, but innovations in space management and integrated farming systems offer promising solutions.

In the late nineteenth century, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) were introduced to the Andaman Islands to work in timber operations that continued until the early 2000s. On occasions working ...

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.