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, littering zones and laundry sites transport microplastics to urban lakes. Microplastic pollution in freshwater systems has emerged ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For Banyllashisha Wankhar, caves are not just geological wonders, they are landscapes of culture, memory, and personal discovery. “I belong to a ...

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 ...

A new study shows that groundwater, not glaciers, is the lifeline of the Ganga river. Groundwater discharge increases the Ganga river’s volume by about 120% in the Gangetic Plains compared to its ...

Two decades after civil unrest, wildlife makes a steady recovery ...

A new study by Nagaland University has raised concerns over the health of Manipur’s Loktak lake, one of India’s most important freshwater ecosystems and the only floating national park in the world.

Climate change could shift the range of India’s Big Four venomous snakes towards human-dominated areas, increasing snakebite risks in northern and northeastern states. The study links climate, ...

One of the most elusive small cats, Pallas’s cat, was photographed for the first time as part of a survey in Arunachal Pradesh. The survey also recorded the presence of five other wild cats at heights ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. This one example highlights the co-benefits of tiger conservation efforts. Though India’s tiger conservation strategy focuses on recovering the ...

The Bandipur Tiger Reserve in Karnataka supports a healthy population of 150 tigers out of around 3,600 nationally, according to the 2022 tiger census report. “The survival of the tiger is closely ...

A 2,200 megawatt hydroelectric power project has been cleared for construction in Arunachal Pradesh, on the condition that project developers integrate simulations of glacial lake outburst flood ...