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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

India’s clean energy goals may widen regional disparities, predicts working paper

Kundan Pandey 20 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
Pilgrims take blessings from a priest at the Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats. Photo by David

Green pilgrimage model balances faith and conservation

Arathi Menon 5 Sep 2023
Image shows windmills with a mountain in the background

Odanthurai’s windmill experiment, a pioneering move that had its wind knocked out

Gowthami Subramaniam 11 Aug 2023

Communication technologies for deep-sea fishers as cyclones intensify in the Arabian Sea

Max Martin, Sindhu Nepolean 24 Jul 2023

What happened to Tamil Nadu’s model renewable energy village?

Gowthami Subramaniam 21 Jul 2023
Volunteers cleaning river Thamirabarani. Photo by Vasudevan Sridharan.

[Video] Restoring the perennial Thamirabarani river with people power

Vasudevan Sridharan 19 Jul 2023
Women with palmyra nursery bags. Photo by Balaji Vedharajan.

Palmyra leaf bags substitute plastic nursery bags to support sustainable mangrove restoration

M.T. Saju 18 Jul 2023
An assembled three-cell stack alkaline seawater electrolyser. Hydrogen and oxygen evolution from the outlet can be seen in the inverted cylinders. Photo from IIT Madras.

IIT Madras scientists develop prototype to use seawater for green hydrogen production

Pranav Sinha 6 Jul 2023
Biogas fumes generated from waste water produced after treatment of sago. Photo by Laasya Shekhar/Mongabay.

High capital investment and poor access to subsidies, a drawback for biogas in sago industry

Laasya Shekhar 5 Jul 2023
Feeding an elephant calf. Photo by Abhishek N. Chinnappa.

The hidden side of human-elephant conflicts: orphaned calves

Arathi Menon 24 May 2023