Sneha Mahale is a Mumbai-based journalist and editor who covers climate change, wildlife, health, technology, and culture. Her work has been published in Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, New Indian ...

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 ...

India’s ethanol programme is increasingly moving beyond sugarcane and molasses, with grain-based distilleries now playing a larger role in ethanol supply. Industry voices say grain-based ethanol can ...

Jharkhand has received below-normal monsoon rainfall this season so far, impacting the sowing and transplanting of kharif crops. Insufficient rainfall could lead to a decline in the production of ...

A study of the Indian Ocean humpback dolphins off Goa’s coast found that the dolphins socialised and foraged less when tourist boats were around and the probability of foraging increased around ...

Lessons from Brazil, a mature ethanol economy, suggest that ethanol blending is not only selling blended fuel, but building a seamless ecosystem to win consumer trust and satisfaction. In Brazil, ...

Researchers have described a new trapdoor spider species, Tigidia singhal, from the semi-arid grasslands of the Deccan Plateau. It belongs to an ancient group of mygalomorph spiders that spend most of ...

A new report highlights the age and gender-differentiated impacts of heat stress. The paper calls for a greater understanding of how people across demographics bear the brunt of extreme heat. There is ...

Karnataka is the latest state to issue an advisory on planting Conocarpus trees, following prohibitory orders by the state governments of Gujarat, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu. While ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study tracked sugarcane production trends across five districts in Maharashtra and Karnataka between 1999 and 2021, finding significant yield ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Two volcanic eruptions — one in Japan, and the other in Nicaragua — spewed sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere in the 1830s. This in turn ...

Species File: Exploring India’s biodiversity, one species at a time. In July, four Malabar pied hornbills were spotted near agricultural fields along the Muyyam river in Kannur district, Kerala, a ...