For at least 2 yrs, Tamil Nadu has been diligently studying extreme heat. Now, it's produced the country’s most granular analysis of how land use change is making the state hotter – to the detriment of its people and the environment: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/a-new-…

हरियाणा और मध्य प्रदेश में कार्बन खेती से जुड़े किसानों को लगभग कोई मौद्रिक लाभ नहीं मिला है, एक नए अध्ययन में यह पाया गया है। Simrin Sirur hindi.mongabay.com/2025/08/05/car…

Excellent piece by Simrin Sirur. This is exactly what more states should be doing .. but aren't.

No one is asking who is buying American oil & gas while it funds Israeli genocide in Gaza because no country is powerful enough to impose sanctions on the US. The crux of the problem with sanctions: only economically powerful nations can wield it even while engaged in atrocities

If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, it's people's views silences and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop : Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed aje.io/0pa37x via Al Jazeera English

"The doctor never touches the body, he just keeps making notes... I know how to cut open the body and break open the skull... I show the doctor where the bones are broken, where injuries have been sustained." Insane story by Shubhangi Misra : theprint.in/ground-reports…

#HYST? A new study finds Tamil Nadu's urban sprawl isn’t just growth—it’s driving climate shifts. With 74% already exposed to heat stress, the analysis calls for planning beyond conventional models, Simrin Sirur writes for @mongabayindia. More: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/a-new-…

Hard to understand this. After too many complaints, a team from CITES (Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species) is expected to visit Vantara soon. Is this hurriedly-set-up SIT a pre-emptive response? Or, after ORF/Dream11/Anil Ambani, is Modi gunning at Vantara?

Court submission challenges ‘confidential’ report on the Great Nicobar Island plan india.mongabay.com/2025/08/a-new-…

submission by activist challenges the confidentiality of a report greenlighting a megaport project on Great Nicobar Island highlighting that 7 km² of CRZ-1A zones were reclassified and EIA was rushed. The hearing resumes tomorrow, August 29, 2025. india.mongabay.com/2025/08/a-new-…

People of Punjab are battling floods but industrial city Ludhiana is witnessing “black floods”. Polluted, toxic, stinking water laden with industrial chemicals, from Buddha Nullah has entered colonies, forcing people to undergo saza~e~kaala paani in modern times The Indian Express

More confusion as 'green credit' scheme — introduced as a market-based mechanism — drops provision of trading credits entirely. Govt rushed notifying the scheme despite criticism, now modifies rules to address some concerns, but not all: india.mongabay.com/2025/09/green-…

This is a Jayashree Nandi salaam tweet. We are so lucky to have her on the environment beat!

At least 90 #students from Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya in #Nangnyo in #PakkeKessang district marched around 65 km to highlight the acute shortage of #teachers in their institute. The students, in their blue school uniform, embarked on a #footmarch from #Nyangno village on

That tiny blue dot is a whale navigating busy ship traffic in Chile’s Gulf of Ancud, tracked for a week.

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A new report from CITES flags problems with India’s due diligence, contrasting the conclusions of the Supreme Court which deemed all of Vantara’s animal imports to be fully compliant with Indian + international law: india.mongabay.com/2025/11/global…

The CITES Secretariat launched a fact-finding mission to India after multiple countries raised concerns over the scale and legality of animal transfers, many of them destined for Reliance Foundation’s Vantara. Simrin Sirur reports. india.mongabay.com/2025/11/global…