Ambikapur, located in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, is a small city that houses about 200,000 people.In the recent years, the city has become synonymous with ‘cleanliness’, as the decentralised ...

The quiet do-ers. Jockim, 45, has a quiet, confident presence. He takes a long time to open up and even after that, he speaks little. He is well aware of the role he and his people play in keeping ...

The Indian summer monsoon is a vast weather event that is crucial to the 1.39 billion people that live in India, as most of the rainfall (70-90%) that the country receives, is during this period, ...

Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – with the frequency and intensity of many natural ...

The allocation of lands for new commercial coal mines is likely to renew issues related to the creation of land banks in Jharkhand. Common lands that people use have been transferred to land banks ...

Municipal solid waste from India contributed to 10% of waste leakage to the world’s rivers in 2020, according to a new study. In future scenarios where population growth is high, but urbanisation slow ...

Colonisation of the forests devastated them and their inhabitants, the forest dwellers and wildlife. To rein in the recalcitrant state governments for their unchecked forest diversion, the union ...

India is not only a major source, but also a transit and a destination country for trafficked wildlife and wildlife products. International wildlife trafficking into and out of India mainly occurs ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In a bid to make India’s financial system resilient to climate-related risks, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is mulling over possible regulations.

The case of unclassed forests. Almost a quarter of India’s forest cover occurs on less than 8% of the country’s territory within the remote, mountainous regions of northeast India. Forest covers much ...

Creating policies that ease ‘big’ growth. Karnataka’s new industrial policy also aims to make land acquisition easier, removing restrictions on land conversion and exempting industries from the ...

You’re listening to ‘Everything Environment‘ by Mongabay-India. This is Wild Frequencies, a three-part podcast mini-series.. Kartik Chandramouli (KC): Hello and welcome back to episode 2 of Wild ...