Poorly planned tree planting programmes in Himachal Pradesh have squeezed pastoralists and put greater pressure on fragile ecosystems

After a chance sighting, writer Nimesh Ved explores how India’s endangered river dolphin is faring in Uttar Pradesh, and asks how the inland waterways project will affect it

Training and improved irrigation have helped indigenous and marginalised communities in two villages to take up farming and reduce their dependence on forests

The endangered birds, locally called Garuda, repay by killing farm pests

For over 20 years, Mising people have been victims of restrictive conservation policies in the same forest that is being opened up to industry and mining

In Jammu, the Tawi river becomes one of the most polluted in Jammu and Kashmir, inspiring local clean-up efforts, but little government help

Ropeways are being touted by the Indian government as an environment-friendly form of transport in the Himalayas, but experts and locals say they risk disturbing fragile mountain ecosystems and disrupting livelihoods

Environmental destruction and climate change are driving pandemics, with the Hindu Kush Himalayas a potential hotspot for new emerging diseases

Life is increasingly dangerous on Mousuni in the Sundarbans, which has been dealt consecutive blows by cyclones Bulbul and Amphan

Spiralling costs, long delays, earthquakes and landslide risks plague developers trying to build hydropower projects in the Indian Himalayan states