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Restore fragmented forests to help them recover

Aathira Perinchery 13 Nov 2019

Hills of peril: Southwest monsoon inflicts severe damage in the Nilgiris

K.A. Shaji 23 Oct 2019
Coonoor stream after it was cleaned up. Photo by Clean Coonoor.

Coonoor citizens and officials clean the streams and river in the hill town

Nina Varghese 2 Oct 2019

Vanishing forests drive lion-tailed macaques to search for food in people’s homes

Bhanu Sridharan 24 Sep 2019
(L to R) Ranjitha (radio jockey), Durga (volunteer) and Aparna (station director) inside the recording room at Kalanjiam Samuga Vanoli, a community radio station based in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Kartik Chandramouli/Mongabay.

How a community radio gives voice to the climate-vulnerable in Tamil Nadu

Kartik Chandramouli 23 Sep 2019

Artificial intelligence-powered app for banana disease detection, control

Sahana Ghosh 13 Sep 2019

Mekedatu project threatens to submerge chunks of Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary

K.A. Shaji 10 Sep 2019

In the Western Ghats ridges it is ice that keeps the shola-grasslands intact

Bhanu Sridharan 28 Aug 2019
The Tharuvaikulam wharf from where the palmyra tree climbers who took to fishing set sail with their eco-friendly gill nets.

Tharuvaikulam’s palmyra climbers turn sustainable fishers

Jency Samuel 9 Aug 2019

The Tamilian Warrior becomes a state symbol

Vasudevan Sridharan 8 Aug 2019

[Book review] A much-needed voice for the Nilgiris

Aathira Perinchery 30 Jul 2019

How the legacy of a colonial hunter has inspired conservation efforts in the forests of south India

K.A. Shaji 17 Jul 2019
An all male group moving through human habitations. Photo by Vinod Moses/FEP.

Elephants form unusual all-male groups to survive human landscapes

Aathira Perinchery 11 Jul 2019

To find out monkey fever’s next destination, scientists follow the ticks that carry it

Bhanu Sridharan 1 Jul 2019

Chennai water crisis once again exposes the city’s climate vulnerability

Dharani Thangavelu, S. Gopikrishna Warrier 28 Jun 2019

Microplastics and colourants found in mussels from India’s southeast coast

Neha Jain 25 Jun 2019
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Old Veerappan lair set to be a tiger den

K.A. Shaji 14 Jun 2019

When the grass was green: Todas of the Nilgiris long for their lost grasslands

Bhanu Sridharan 16 May 2019
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[Photos] Zooming into the environmental problems of a growing Chennai

Amirtharaj Stephen 17 Apr 2019

[Commentary] Looking beyond the Chennai city, at the Chennai watershed

Anjana Vencatesan 16 Apr 2019