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[Book review] Ancient giants make for great stories

Usha Rai 14 Nov 2024

Climate change, habitat loss drive elephants to look for newer pastures 

Laasya Shekhar 14 Oct 2024

What’s on the menu? Understanding the diverse diet of fishing cats

Sneha Mahale 31 May 2024

Women-led initiative offers relief to women dairy farmers battling heat stress

Laasya Shekhar 10 May 2024

Restaurants fuelling demand for shark meat in India, finds study

Simrin Sirur 24 Jan 2024

Residents near one of India’s largest uranium mines suspect contamination affecting their fields and health

Meena Menon 10 Aug 2023
In the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, India, rural villagers are planting a new crop of rice paddy.

Community-based natural farming outshines other farming practices in Andhra Pradesh

Kundan Pandey 31 Jul 2023

Concerns over increased whale shark stranding along Andhra Pradesh’s coast

Almaas Masood 15 Jul 2022
M. Venkatarami Reddy, a farmer from village of Nerabilu gram panchayat falls in Yerravaripalem mandal of Tirupati district, at his 22-acre mango farm showing the fall in yield this year. Photo by G Ram Mohan.

Unprecedented rainfall and pesticide usage lead to low mango yields in Andhra Pradesh districts

G. Ram Mohan 24 May 2022

Environment factors push people out of their homes on India’s east coast, leaving behind ‘ghost villages’

Manish Kumar 11 Feb 2022

Most famines in south India under British rule due to minor rainfall fluctuations, rather than extreme events

Sahana Ghosh 15 Sep 2021

Uncertain future for elephants of northern Andhra Pradesh

Almaas Masood 6 Aug 2021
Excess application of fertilizers and pesticides contaminates groundwater which harms animals and public health. Photo by Rituparna Palit.

India’s new geospatial norms pave way for agri boost

Rituparna Palit 15 Jul 2021

Southern India’s 2016-2018 drought was the worst in 150 years

Neha Jain 20 May 2021

Eucalyptus plantations in Andhra Pradesh sway between economy and ecology

Azera Parveen Rahman 21 Apr 2021
Otters in a bird sanctuary at Uppalapadu near Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. Photo by Ch.Vijay Bhaskar.

Otter sighting in Andhra bird sanctuary raises excitement but also questions

M. Somasekhar 24 Mar 2021
A home that flooded in Kerala in 2018. Photo by Dilshad Roshan/Wikimedia Commons.

Floods, cyclones caused maximum deaths by extreme weather events in past 50 years

Sahana Ghosh 9 Mar 2021

Industries violating coastal zone law can now get away with paying compensation

Mayank Aggarwal 2 Mar 2021
The yellow-throated bulbul. Photo by Ashish Jha.

[Commentary] Counting bulbuls to conserve the Deccan hillocks and scrub forests

Ashish Jha, Somdatta Karak 11 Jan 2021

Decoding the mystery illness that struck Eluru

M. Somasekhar 5 Jan 2021