Farmers in Jharkhand will receive carbon finance funds under the Birsa Harit Gram Yojana scheme, to help them maintain their plantations.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Batagur kachuga turtles have been translocated and released in the Ganga river and tagged with sonic devices to monitor them.

Muppandal wind farm, home to India's largest operational onshore wind farm in terms of installed capacity has led to a huge social impact in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu.

The passage of the Forest (Conservation) Amendment Act will have huge implications for the northeast of India where large expanses of forests are not notified as forests in any Act.

Assam’s Majuli island is dotted with an elaborate network of wetlands of varying sizes and characteristics, a marker of the island’s geological past. A large number of people have historically ...

Socio-economic issues plague villages in Karnataka's Pavagada region that gave land on lease to build a solar park.

State governments and organisations are increasingly experimenting with parametric insurance to cope with losses from natural disasters.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for Pune’s River Rejuvenation Project in March, announcing the commencement of the ambitious project that aims to redesign and reengineer ...