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A dried out agricultural field in Keelasiruputhu near Ramanathapuram, impacted by oil exploration in the region. Image by K.A. Shaji.

Hydrocarbon exploration sparks protest over livelihood and environmental concerns

K.A. Shaji 24 Oct 2025
A medical camp held at a school in Rudrasagar, Assam. Image by District Commissioner, Sivasagar.

Gas leak in Assam oil rig under control but has affected hundreds

Nabarun Guha 3 Jul 2025
Tourists gather near the coast at Kaniyakumari.

Plans to explore oil and gas in biodiversity-rich Wadge Bank raises concerns

K.A. Shaji 29 May 2024

Walls come down to make way for elephants

Nabarun Guha 3 Apr 2024

Oil spill in Ennore brings fishing to a standstill

Laasya Shekhar 29 Dec 2023

Three years after an oil well blowout, this Assam wetland is slowly coping

Bondita Baruah 28 Dec 2023

Big oil leaning on carbon capture may fracture consensus on ditching fossil fuels

Soumya Sarkar 11 Dec 2023

With no primary data on impacts, government approves an oil extraction technique 500 m outside forests

Simrin Sirur 28 Sep 2023

Tarballs dot India’s west coast annually, indicating continued oil spills, ship fuel discharge

Manjula Nair 21 Nov 2022
A huge rock art of an elephant in the district of Ratnagiri. The proposed crude oil refinery complex in the region poses threat to the heritage sites. Photo from Nisargyatri Sanstha.

Oil refinery sparks protests over livelihood concerns in Ratnagiri

Abhijeet Gurjar 17 Nov 2022

Oil palm farmers in Arunachal Pradesh lose hope in absence of processing mills, market, road linkage

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 Jun 2022

[Video] The future of palm oil production in Kerala

Salim Joseph 27 Oct 2021
A woman returning from a market crosses a palm oil plantation in Damparengpui village, Mamit district, Mizoram. Photo by Gaurab Talukdar.

Mizoram’s balancing act with palm oil’s ecological impact and economic benefits

Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya, Gaurab Talukdar, Nabarun Guha 13 Sep 2021

[Commentary] Cyclone, oil spill and tarballs: a trio of troubles for Mahim village

Dhwani Shah 19 Aug 2021

Palm oil cultivation in India can be expanded while sparing biodiversity, says study

Rupsy Khurana 27 Jul 2021
India’s growing demand for palm oil is linked to large scale deforestation for oil palm agriculture in Indonesia and Malaysia.

As India eyes domestic palm oil growth environmental concerns take a backseat

Kundan Pandey, Mayank Aggarwal 24 Mar 2021

Palm oil muscles in on coconut farmers in southeast Asia

Nithin Coca 9 Nov 2020

[Photos] Navigating a world built on palm oil in southern Papua

Albertus Vembrianto 3 Nov 2020
Crested black macaque. Image by Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay.

Unique primate habitat in Indonesia under threat from palm oil plantations

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2020
Flooded oil palm plantation. Image courtesy of Clara Zemp

Worsening floods in Indonesia’s Sumatra Island linked to oil palm plantations

Basten Gokkon 19 Oct 2020