While Mongabay-India has been reporting about green jobs for almost a decade, our series in 2025 aimed to document their evolution and the aspirations of the new entrants into the workforce. While ...

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Wetlands are vital ecosystems supporting a diversity of species, but climate change, pollution, and human activities are degrading water quality and altering food webs. A decade-long study in ...

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 ...

It was like any other day in a rainy season. The people of Vellarimala hill ranges in the Western Ghats of Wayanad district of Kerala had little inkling of what was in store when they went to sleep on ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Groundwater, a critical source of freshwater for agriculture, households, and hotels, is depleting and this could have economic and environmental ...

Marine heat waves are events where ocean temperatures rise to extreme levels and hold steady for at least five days. These heat waves, that occur over the ocean, are likely to extend to 220-250 days a ...

Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and characteristics, a marker of the island’s geological past. A large number of people have historically ...

Delhi-based NGO Call for Justice, conducted a study on the implementation of Forest Rights Act across five states, and found varying gaps in implementation. Forest-dwelling communities who are not ...

Millets have been an integral part of the adivasi culture and lifestyle in the Western Ghats’ highlands of Attappadi, Kerala. Government support and a newfound market interest have now increased the ...

A survey reveals India’s urban governance is ill-prepared for the challenges of urbanisation, with issues such as missing master plans, poor policy implementation and transparency deficits. To address ...