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Debate over Mullaperiyar dam’s safety continues with opposing views in Kerala and Tamil Nadu

K.A. Shaji 9 Feb 2022

Newly declared dugong conservation reserve will help protect marine biodiversity

K.A. Shaji 12 Jan 2022

Chennai’s fight to preserve its wetlands and stay above water

Nina Varghese 29 Dec 2021
Sumitra shows the value-added beeswax-products. Photo by Arathi Menon.

Aadhimalai, winner of UN Equator Prize from Nilgiris, offers a lesson in indigenous economics

Arathi Menon 20 Dec 2021
SIPCOT industrial estate in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. Photo by Ajit Menon.

[Commentary] Industrialisation gone wrong in coastal Cuddalore

Ajit Menon, Arunkumar A.S. 1 Dec 2021

[Interview] Chennai floods again after losing many blue and green spaces

S. Gopikrishna Warrier 11 Nov 2021

[Commentary] Balancing trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and livelihoods

Joli Rumi Borah and James Reed 21 Oct 2021

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

Sahana Ghosh 15 Sep 2021

Coral transplantation helps, but not the only solution

Supriya Vohra 18 Aug 2021

Large-scale removal of Banni’s invasive ‘mad tree’ Prosopis is not the solution: study

Sahana Ghosh 3 Aug 2021

[Commentary] Nature-based solutions hold the key to transform our cities into resilient spaces

Suchismita Mukhopadhyay and Saurav Chowdhury 30 Jul 2021

Millions of seahorses caught as bycatch in Indian shores

Neha Jain 26 Jul 2021

Environmental activism in the Nilgiris: too early to rejoice?

Nina Varghese 15 Jul 2021
Murugan, one of the protest leaders of Kumarettiyapuram village, showing the compound wall of Sterlite at his village where work for a second smelting unit was happening in 2018. Photo by M. Kalyanaraman.

Has Sterlite Copper been able to generate the promised oxygen supply?

M. Kalyanaraman 13 Jul 2021

Are we overlooking the role of grasslands in mitigating climate change?

Aathira Perinchery 29 Jun 2021

[Commentary] Elephants and humans coexist in Pandanallur

Shobha Menon 21 Jun 2021
Uma Mani, Chennai-based homemaker who learned diving at 49. Through her paintings, she has been trying to draw public attention to the devastating effects of climate change on marine life

Chennai artist and deep-sea diver creates awareness about coral health

Anjana Parikh 9 Jun 2021

A new tiger reserve holds hope for revival of Vaigai river in Madurai

K.A. Shaji 2 Jun 2021

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

Neha Jain 20 May 2021
Seedlings of Pterygoplichthys sp. Photo by Ajmal Hussan.

Checking spread of invasive alien fish as India faces climate extremes

Sahana Ghosh 19 May 2021