Environment

Participatory development programmes for rural livelihoods and ecological regeneration.

Organisation AgricultureWelfare India, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar

Climate action and awareness through the emotive power of cinema.

Organisation ClimateEnvironment India, Maharashtra

Nonprofit conserving heirloom seeds and teaching regenerative, chemical-free agriculture through farms and farmer networks

Organisation AgricultureEnvironment India, Karnataka

Environmental research, conservation, and socially just development across key landscapes.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Telangana

High-resolution global land and ocean temperature datasets with full uncertainty quantification, assembled from more stations than any other global product

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Open atlas for viewing, filtering, downloading and contributing Indian geospatial layers, from boundaries and wards to rivers and roads

Data source LandCities India

Charitable learning institution offering fellowships, workshops and public programmes on ecology and sustainable living

Organisation EducationEnvironment India, Karnataka

Geological Survey of India's map and geoscience portal for geology, minerals, geochemistry and exploration layers

Data source LandEnvironment India

Interdisciplinary biodiversity knowledge, dialogue, and public learning across ecological systems.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India

Ecological architecture, rainwater harvesting, and responsible land use.

Organisation WaterEnvironment India, Karnataka

UK-based climate science and policy news site — data-driven explainers, fact-checks, and analysis that set the standard for climate journalism worldwide

Publication ClimateEnergy Global

Policy research on energy transition, clean air, water security, climate risks, and sustainable resource use in India

Organisation EnergyClimate India

India's national groundwater agency — aquifer maps, water level and quality data, resource assessments, and reports on a critical water resource

Data source WaterAgriculture India

Independent research organisation tracking air pollution, health impacts of fossil fuels, and clean energy transitions — with significant India analysis

Organisation EnergyClimate Global, India

Public-interest research and advocacy organisation advancing environmental governance, clean air, water management, and sustainable development

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Global

Conserving India's wildlife through research and community engagement, with flagship coexistence programmes.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

AI-powered inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from 745 million individual assets worldwide — power plants, ships, factories, farms, and forests

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

WRI's open climate data platform — country-level greenhouse gas emissions, NDCs, climate policies, and linkages across development indicators in one interface

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Monthly coal production, dispatch, pithead stock, and royalty statistics by company, state, and grade — the primary source on India's largest energy commodity

Data source EnergyEconomy India

Participatory portal documenting community conserved areas across South Asia, with locations, ecosystems, areas and legal status

Data source LandEnvironment India

Global atmospheric composition — aerosols, reactive gases, greenhouse gases, wildfire emissions, and air quality forecasts, from the EU's Copernicus programme

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

ESA's visual browser for Sentinel satellite imagery — optical, radar, and atmospheric data from the Copernicus constellation, with on-the-fly visualisation

Data source LandEnvironment Global, India

The EU's climate data warehouse — ERA5 reanalysis, seasonal forecasts, projections, satellite observations, and sectoral indicators, all with documented APIs

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Live and historical air quality readings from India's continuous monitoring stations, with the National Air Quality Index

Dashboard EnvironmentHealth India

Marine and coastal conservation linked to livelihoods, wellbeing, and environmental justice.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep

Fifth-generation global climate reanalysis from ECMWF — hourly atmospheric, land, and ocean variables from 1940 to near-present at 0.25° resolution

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Collaborative network for ecological restoration practice, learning, and open knowledge across Indian ecoregions.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India

Directory of organisations working on environment and sustainability across India, sorted into some thirty-six categories

Directory EnvironmentClimate India

FAO flagship series on food systems, fisheries, climate resilience and market outlooks for food security work

Publication AgricultureClimate Global, India

Carbon-financed agroforestry and biodiversity restoration with smallholder farmers.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Maharashtra

The India State of Forest Report — biennial satellite assessment of forest and tree cover, state by state and district by district

Publication LandEnvironment India

Interactive basin-scale river maps, ecological storytelling, and historical baseline documentation for living river recovery

Publication WaterEnvironment India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

Non-profit working to restore and protect common land, community pastures, and water bodies through village-level governance across India

Organisation LandEnvironment India

Research organisation conserving medicinal plants and documenting the knowledge and practice of Indian health traditions

Organisation HealthEnvironment India, Karnataka

The foundational library for geospatial data conversion — translate between any GIS format, reproject coordinates, and process raster/vector data at scale

Tool TechnologyLand Global, India

Browser-based OpenStreetMap tool for inspecting, styling, compositing, and exporting multi-layer GeoJSON vectors as PNGs

Tool TechnologyCities Global

Free, private-by-design GIS for visualising, editing, and analysing geospatial data across browsers, desktops, mobile, and Jupyter

Tool TechnologyLand Global

The authoritative annual budget of CO₂ sources and sinks — fossil fuel emissions, land-use change, and ocean/land carbon uptake from the Global Carbon Project

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Open datasets mapping energy infrastructure — power plants, coal mines, solar farms, wind, oil and gas, and steel facilities, all at the facility level

Data source EnergyClimate Global, India

Near-real-time satellite monitoring of forest loss, with alerts you can subscribe to for a specific area

Dashboard LandClimate Global

FAO’s flagship annual assessment of hunger, food insecurity and climate-related food system stress

Publication AgricultureNutrition Global, India

Interactive AI weather observatory and cyclone tracker showcasing WeatherNext 3, GenCast, and GraphCast global forecasts

Dashboard ClimateDisasters Global, India

Planetary-scale cloud computing platform pairing a 90+ petabyte Earth observation catalog with parallel geospatial analysis APIs

Tool EnvironmentTechnology Global, India

Google's multi-petabyte catalog of geospatial datasets — satellite imagery, climate, terrain, land cover, and population data — queryable at planetary scale

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Water conservation and afforestation for rural development, with a distinctive all-or-none community model.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Odisha, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh

Rainmatter-hosted forum for afforestation, agroforestry, and climate work through practitioner discussions.

Community EnvironmentClimate India

Community-based plant conservation, habitat restoration, and ecological learning in the Western Ghats.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Kerala

Research on urban green spaces and human-wildlife interactions, plus affordable housing.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal, Odisha

Social organisation integrating informal waste pickers into municipal solid waste systems, circular economy, and social security in Karnataka

Organisation LabourCities Karnataka, India

Himalayan conservation, livelihoods, and ecological stewardship rooted in mountain communities.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir

Community-led science-based solutions for climate resilience and ecological stewardship in Kerala.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Kerala

Global satellite observations of soil moisture, freeze-thaw state, inundation, forest biomass, ocean winds and sea ice

Data source WaterClimate Global, India

Unified repository of open geospatial data for India, covering administrative boundaries, transport, hydrology, environment, and an in-browser map maker

Data source LandGovernance India

Maps India's infrastructure projects against protected areas and forest fragmentation, so you can see what is being built through what

Dashboard LandEnvironment India

Two decades of reporting, research and district-level rainfall data on Indian water, sanitation and groundwater

Publication WaterEnvironment India

Non-profit advancing complete streets, bus rapid transit, cycle networks, and sustainable public transit across Indian municipal corporations

Organisation TransportCities India

The official archive for all IPCC assessment datasets — observed climate, future projections, socioeconomic scenarios, and impacts data with consistent metadata

Archive ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Environmental action group working on conservation, livelihoods, ecological justice, education and alternative development

Organisation EnvironmentRights India

Socio-ecological resilience for indigenous and local communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka

Decades of free satellite imagery from the Landsat programme — the longest continuous Earth observation record, essential for studying change over time

Data source LandEnvironment Global, India

Interactive dashboard for social-ecological indicators across Indian landscapes to support climate resilience planning.

Dashboard EnvironmentClimate India

Wildlife education, rescue, and rehabilitation.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Kerala

Free offline-first mapping toolset designed with Indigenous communities for locally controlled territorial documentation

Tool TechnologyLand Global

Independent nonprofit reporting on India's forests, wildlife, oceans, climate, conservation and environmental governance

Publication EnvironmentClimate India

Repository of animal tracking data where researchers archive, share and analyse studies, hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Data source EnvironmentLand Global

Plant conservation, rainforest regeneration, and nature education.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka

NASA's gateway to Earth observation data — fires, vegetation, rainfall, temperature, oceans, ice, and 1,000+ imagery layers through Worldview

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Satellite-detected fires and thermal anomalies in near-real-time — the standard source for tracking forest fires, crop burning, and industrial hotspots

Dashboard EnvironmentClimate Global, India

NASA Goddard Institute's global surface temperature record — one of the four canonical datasets used to measure global warming, with monthly updates since 1880

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Interactive browser for over 1,000 global satellite imagery layers, updated within hours of observation, nearly 30 years back

Tool EnvironmentClimate Global

Research-driven conservation across wildlife, habitats, and human-nature relationships.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir

Rural charitable trust and community exploring ecological approaches to food, farming, energy, water, buildings and waste

Organisation EnvironmentAgriculture India, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

NOAA's archive of historical weather — station-level daily summaries, global hourly data, and normals for tens of thousands of stations worldwide

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Odissi dance preservation and Food Forest support near Bengaluru.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka

Open platform for live, hyperlocal PM2.5 and PM10 readings from government, research and community monitors across India

Data source EnvironmentHealth India

World Bank’s open-access repository for papers, working papers, books and research outputs across development sectors

Directory EconomyEnvironment Global, India

Aggregated ground-level air quality from 150+ countries — harmonised, API-accessible, and far easier to work with than individual government portals

Data source EnvironmentHealth Global, India

Community-led water conservation and climate-resilient rural livelihoods focused on drought-prone Maharashtra.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Maharashtra

Citizen-led river basin observatory providing open data on water flow, reservoir storage, and catchment health in India

Organisation WaterEnvironment India, Karnataka

Eco-restoration of the upper Palar River basin through riverine afforestation, groundwater recharge, and community-led landscape recovery.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Karnataka

Nature-based outdoor education in Chennai schools.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Tamil Nadu

Environmental, forest and wildlife clearance applications and decisions for Indian projects, with the documents attached

Data source EnvironmentLand India

World Bank flagship on poverty, inequality and inclusive growth pathways across economies with implications for climate and social policy

Publication EconomyWelfare Global, India

The standard open-source desktop GIS — full-featured spatial analysis, map-making, and geodata processing, free and cross-platform, with a vast plugin ecosystem

Tool LandCities Global, India

Funds and connects Indian organisations working on climate action, ecological restoration, and environment-linked livelihoods

Organisation PhilanthropyClimate India

Open data platform mapping restoration and conservation sites worldwide, with ecological and land-cover data attached to each

Dashboard LandEnvironment Global

Conservation of nature and wildlife through research, education, and sustainability.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu

Waste management based on circular economy principles.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra

Organic farmers' movement conserving indigenous crop diversity through seed networks, community banks and participatory research

Organisation AgricultureEnvironment India, Karnataka

Empowering self-sustaining communities with grassroots leadership.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Gujarat

Food biodiversity, local greens, and community storytelling rooted in regional food systems.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Karnataka

Tree plantations, forest creation, and water rejuvenation across Indian cities.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka

Apprenticeship-based ecological learning emerging from Gurukula and allied landscape organisations.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

Rural development in tribal areas through water conservation.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Madhya Pradesh

Nature conservation in the Nilgiri region, focused on shola-grassland ecosystems.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka

Alternative learning community where young people design education around real projects, mentors and ecological responsibility

Organisation EducationEnvironment India, Rajasthan

Sustainable waste management for public health.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Karnataka

Building shared data infrastructure and capacity so civil society organisations can collaborate and tell stronger, data-driven stories together

Organisation TechnologyGovernance India

Helps Indian nonprofits build practical technology capacity, open-source infrastructure, and communities for lasting social impact

Organisation TechnologyEducation India

Conservation impact through appropriate technology.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India

Grassroots regeneration of drought-prone landscapes through cooperatives, organic farming, and local economies.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Andhra Pradesh

UNEP's annual assessment of global adaptation financing needs, risk preparedness and climate resilience progress

Publication ClimateEnvironment Global, India

UNEP flagship analysis of current and projected emissions versus climate targets and pathway gaps

Publication ClimateEnergy Global, India

Ecological restoration and wildlife corridors in South Bengal and the eastern Himalayas.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya

Women-run Western Ghats collective conserving traditional seeds, forest-garden biodiversity and small-scale food systems

Organisation AgricultureGender India, Karnataka

Open Python and R toolkit for downloading ERA5 and IMD climate data for any region and computing heat stress indices

Tool ClimateHealth India, Global

River ecosystems, freshwater resources, and biodiversity documentation through walking expeditions.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India

Ecological security for rainfed areas and poorer communities.

Organisation AgricultureLabour India, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Waste management in the Indian Himalayan Region.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Goa

Non-profit research and development organisation pioneering participatory watershed management, climate adaptation, and water budgeting in rural India

Organisation WaterAgriculture India

Interactive atlas and open data mapping 4,331 village polygons across 6 states for the Western Ghats Ecologically Sensitive Area notification

Data source EnvironmentLand Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, India

Conservation and management of wetlands in South Asia.

Organisation CitiesGovernance India

Conservation science, communities, and biodiversity protection across key landscapes.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland

WMO's annual synthesis of global climate observations, extremes and atmospheric trend indicators

Publication ClimateEnvironment Global

Global gridded climate data — monthly temperature, precipitation, and 19 bioclimatic variables for past, present, and future conditions

Data source ClimateEnvironment Global, India

Fellowships and nature education to build a new generation of community-rooted environmental educators.

Organisation EnvironmentClimate India