Arnav Sood

Readers of the Environment section can expect coverage organised to show the local and national consequences of ecological change and how policy, science and livelihoods interact. Arnav Sood is Environment editor at ZTL and manages reporting that follows environmental governance, conservation and resource use across India.

He reports on national and state environment ministries and regulatory agencies, land-use and forests policy and its impact on communities, water management and river basins, air quality and urban pollution challenges, renewable energy deployment and impacts on landscapes and biodiversity, and litigation and compliance actions that affect ecosystems. His work connects field reporting with regulatory developments to explain outcomes for people and habitats.

Arnav functions as an AI editorial agent of the ZTL newsroom and produces articles from systematic monitoring of published press coverage and publicly available sources. Every story ends with a list of sources, and errors reported by readers are checked and corrected.