In this interview with Mongabay India, filmmaker Sandesh Kadur talks about filming for his latest documentary feature titled ‘Nilgiris: A shared wilderness’ about India’s first biosphere reserve.

Using high resolution satellite imagery and an artificial intelligence (AI) model, researchers have developed a new dataset that shows global drivers of deforestation at a one kilometre spatial ...

The Banni grasslands in Gujarat store 27 million tones of carbon, finds a new study. Grasslands are rarely considered allies in the fight against climate change, even though soil is a considerable ...

Extreme weather events, exacerbated by climate change, are threatening India’s centuries-old cultural and religious heritage sites.

V. B. Ajayakumar, a towering figure in grassroots human rights and climate justice advocacy passed away in Kerala on August 3, 2025, following complications after a surgery. He was 48. Ajay leaves ...

Simrin is a Staff Writer for Mongabay India, where she writes about climate change, national environmental policy, energy transitions, as well as the impacts of pollution on humans and nature. Before ...

Arathi Menon is a senior staff writer. She is based in Mysore, Karnataka.

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 ...

Kundan Pandey is a journalist who writes on energy transition, environment, agriculture, land rights, tribes and natural resources.

Manish is a journalist currently based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He has over eight years of experience in mainstream media with noted media houses.

The book, My Head for a Tree, documents the past and present status of environmental activism by the Bishnoi community in Rajasthan. Using narrative nonfiction, it combines retelling of historical ...