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Is the proposed Pamba-Achankovil-Vaippar project an environmental disaster in making?

K.A. Shaji 7 Jan 2020

A restored wetland brings hope to some in flood and drought prone Chennai

Kartik Chandramouli 3 Jan 2020

Study explores recovery patterns of corals in Palk Bay after the 2016 bleaching event

Neha Jain 25 Dec 2019

Restoring Chennai’s water bodies

Nina Varghese 10 Dec 2019

Are shark conservation laws inclusive?

Bhanu Sridharan 2 Dec 2019

On the frontline of disasters, mangroves at the receiving end of development and climate change

Sahana Ghosh 19 Nov 2019
Thresher sharks are targetted in shark fisheries across the world for their meat, liver oil and fins. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s latest assessment, 139 of the approximately 482 species of sharks found across the planet are threatened by overfishing. Photo by Bhanu Sridharan.

Twenty years in the making: Where is India’s National Plan of Action for shark fisheries?

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Nov 2019

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