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The Ganga river is experiencing its most severe drought ever recorded, with the steepest decline in streamflow in over 1,300 ...

Continuous rainfall, stormwater runoff, wastewater treatment plants and littering zones transport microplastics to urban lakes.

Manish Chandra Mishra is an Assistant Editor at Mongabay India, currently based in Delhi. A multimedia journalist with over a decade of experience in mainstream media, he has established himself as a ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Over two decades, between 2000 and 2019, India faced the third most number of natural disaster events in the world. Future prospects are grim – ...

Solar parks need 7,000–20,000 litres of water per megawatt (MW) per wash. Many solar installations in India are located in arid and semi-arid areas bringing significant risk to the local ecosystem and ...

Ambikapur, a city in Chhattisgarh, created its own decentralised waste management plan that not only minimises waste that reaches a landfill site, but also generates revenue for the local municipal ...

About 122 of the estimated 150 critically endangered great Indian bustard (GIB) remaining in India today are in Rajasthan, concentrated near the Desert National Park in the western front. A project by ...

Rare natural history moment of a fishing cat captured on camera ...

Rapid urbanisation, population growth, and unplanned development have led to land use and land cover changes in Ladakh, adding stress on groundwater resources in the region, says a new study.

Scientists are beginning to unravel the details of the migratory circuit of the globe skimmer dragonfly, believed to fly between India, East Africa and Middle Asia over several generations. The 5 cm ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This story is Part 2 of a three-part series about the advances in agricultural technology in India. It discusses the commonly used agricultural ...