Writings

Madhav Gadgil – a scientist, mentor and an institution builder [Obituary]

Celebrating the life and work of Madhav Gadgil

What India risks by dismantling its rural safety net [Commentary]

The environmental price of India’s new trade push [Commentary]

Valuing the diversity that feeds us [Commentary]

Steadfast in struggle: The environmental legacy of Vimla Bahuguna [Obituary]

Explosion aboard container ship off Kerala coast

Sulochana Gadgil: The woman who chased clouds [Obituary]

Primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91 [Obituary]

Climate action cooled as heat surged in 2025 [Editor’s Review]

[Book review] Environment and economics: linkages that could make or break our post-pandemic world

[Commentary] Why the Wayanad landslide must not fade from memory

[Book review] Unravelling India’s seismic mysteries and our preparedness for the future

Mongabay India honoured with Greenaccord International Media Award

[Interview] Ramachandra Guha on the pioneers of Indian environmentalism

Editor’s Review 2024: The year when greenbacks failed green talks

The Hindu

[Editorial] Five years of Mongabay-India

[Commentary] Greenspeak in the budget needs to be backed by sustained action, independent of optics

[Book review] Lawscape behind landmarks: India’s history of environmental laws and policies

[Obituary] Remembering M. S. Swaminathan

[Commentary] Up close and personal with the fragility of the Himalayas

[Interview] Climate change talks do not take nature into consideration in its economics: Partha Dasgupta

[Commentary] Green language of the Union Budget may result in net loss for the environment

[Commentary] Thirty years after the Rio Summit the green report card is not fully in the red

[Book Review] In The Living Mountain, Ghosh holds up a time-traveller’s mirror to the climate crisis

Editor’s review 2022: A warmer Arabian Sea, energy transition and a search for economic value

[Book review] Indian environmental history for young adults

[Commentary] Is the Budget’s infrastructure push green?

[Commentary] India’s transition to green energy is an opportunity to get it right

[Commentary] Will the COVID-19 second wave buck the trend for the Indian middle class?

[Commentary] Wetland champions: Promise from the grassroots

[Explainer] IPCC AR6 and its relevance to India

[Interview] Chennai floods again after losing many blue and green spaces

[Video Explainer] What is the significance of the Biological Diversity Amendment Bill and why did it face opposition?

Editor’s review 2021: Energy transitions, biodiversity-climate change links

[Editorial] Environmental reality and hope in the time of economic slowdown

[Interview] Green economics is robust enough for policy makers to assess impact of their decisions: Pavan Sukhdev

[Explainer] What is a forest?

[Commentary] It is not COVID-19 alone, but also the environment and the economy

[Commentary] The environmental impacts of the economic package

[Commentary] In a pandemic, a chance to make India’s recovery and growth equitable

[Commentary] Onam is a day to remember the environment to economics connect in Kerala

Environmental issues in agriculture a silent reason behind farmers’ protests

Editor’s review of 2020: Virus, controversies, wildlife, transitions and wetlands

[Analysis] How will the environment fare as India prepares for elections?

[Obituary] India loses its pioneering environment journalist

[Commentary] In Kerala there was nothing “golden” about this missed opportunity

Chennai water crisis once again exposes the city’s climate vulnerability

[Commentary] Did the budget miss the bus for building climate resilience for agriculture?

[Commentary] Is Indian monsoon turning into a string of extreme weather events?

[Analysis] Youth discontent comes to fore as the real Madrid discussions fail

Editor’s pick 2019: Elections, climate change and extreme weather events

The disease burden of Delhi’s smog is among the highest in the world

Silent Valley: A controversy that focused global attention on a rainforest 40 years ago

Is the Supreme Court judgment on the Kaveri environmentally sustainable?

Is the new forest policy draft missing the wood for the trees?

[Commentary] The coasts need science-based policy action

Nipah infection in Kerala: Don’t blame the bats alone; improve public health

Kole Birders: Learning habitat conservation from the birds

[Commentary] Kerala floods: Time for introspection and amends as water recedes

[Interview] Kerala agriculture minister: Organic and natural farming will give farmers self reliance and climate resilience

[Analysis] Will environmental issues drive the narrative in the 2019 national elections?

Editor’s pick: Stories that made impact in 2018

For sustainable development

Andaman crisis

A heart and head for conservation

India unveils New Wildlife Action Plan

Enthusiasts and experts document biodiversity on a digital platform

Missing the wood and trees

Green future

More smoke, less fire

Paradigm shift

For a green GST

Green memories

Voices from the margin

Clearance mela

Climate change and insurance

Missing the point

New emissions target

Organic farming

Playing With The Pillars

The Middle Class Unbottled