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Uniting traditional wisdom with modern science, barefoot ecologists record climate impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 14 Aug 2024

Trust, cost go greater depths to sustain unscientific water divining practice

Simrin Sirur 12 Aug 2024
A gardener tends to the plants in the garden adjacent to the waste segregation and recovery center at Oottupattarai in Coonoor. Image by Abhishek N. Chinnappa/Mongabay.

A blooming tale of transformation

Arathi Menon 23 Jul 2024
Azolla has thrived even in the hottest summer on Maruthachalam's farm, growing robustly under the shade of coconut trees thanks to the natural sand and fresh water available on his four-acre organic farm. Photo by Gowthami Subramaniam/Mongabay.

Farmers embrace Azolla, a fern, as low-cost livestock feed amid fodder shortage

Gowthami Subramaniam 13 Jun 2024

Tilapia, highly adaptable and invasive fish, found growing in marine waters

Sneha Mahale 19 Mar 2024

Scientists leap beyond Latin to give local flair to species names

Laasya Shekhar 7 Mar 2024

India adds five more wetlands to its list of Ramsar sites

Simrin Sirur 2 Feb 2024

Restaurants fuelling demand for shark meat in India, finds study

Simrin Sirur 24 Jan 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024

A village nurtures traditional food systems in response to climate change

Catherine Gilon 10 Jan 2024

Oil spill in Ennore brings fishing to a standstill

Laasya Shekhar 29 Dec 2023

Pythons return home, slowly but surely, finds a new study

Arathi Menon 6 Dec 2023
A spinning mill in Tamil Nadu. Spinning mills that manufacture yarn/thread for weaving the fabric, constitute one of the most power-intensive stages in textile manufacturing. Photo by Gowthami Subramaniam.

Harnessing clean energy for Tamil Nadu’s spinning mills is not as easy as it seems

Gowthami Subramaniam 16 Nov 2023

Six years on, cyclone Ockhi survivors battle lingering mental health impacts

Gowthami Subramaniam 30 Oct 2023
Barnacles on a plastic bottle found on the beach. Photo by Gunasekaran Kannan

Marine debris transporting invasive species along the southeastern coast

Max Martin 11 Oct 2023

Women seaweed farmers seek other jobs while India plans industry expansion

Almaas Masood 10 Oct 2023

Darkness-loving bats are being nudged out of the shadows

Vasudevan Sridharan 22 Sep 2023

Bioinvasions are a global threat to ecosystems, says IPBES report

Arathi Menon 21 Sep 2023
Mist clad Poombarai, a village in Kodaikanal. Photo by Arathi Menon/Mongabay

Hill station waste needs better plan, not just plastic ban

Arathi Menon 13 Sep 2023

First tender for offshore wind energy expected end of this year, but sector wants more time to study sites

Simrin Sirur 12 Sep 2023