Inhalable microplastics are a subset of airborne microplastics. While airborne microplastics are typically less than 5 mm in ...

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 ...

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and ...

Aditi Tandon is a Senior Production Editor at Mongabay India.

Muppandal in Tamil Nadu is home to India’s largest operational onshore wind farm in terms of installed capacity. Over three decades, there are visible social impacts on the people living in the ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

The Indian government has recently released its latest national forest cover report which claims a marginal increase in the country’s total forest and tree cover. It, however, reveals that the ...

Consumers discarded 53.6 million tonnes worth of electronics in 2019, globally up 20 percent in 5 years. But only 17.4 percent was recycled sustainably. India generates about 3 million tonnes (MT) of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The World Environment Day on June 5 marks the formal launch of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), a decade where ...

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 ...