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No flex boards or plastic clutter: Why Chandy Oommen's 'green campaign' in Puthuppally is evincing interest in ecologically fragile Kerala

India, April 2 -- A unique election campaign is unfolding in Puthuppally, arguably the most closely watched constituency in Kerala's forthcoming Assembly elections. It is unique because it lacks the p... Read More


Democracy in the heat: Kerala is campaigning for its polls under a changing climate

India, March 30 -- By 8.30 in the morning in the Punalur assembly constituency of Kollam district, the heat is already oppressive. A narrow residential lane hums with election activity, but the energy... Read More


Kraal or Coexistence: Why Muttikomban's fate matters for Kerala's elephants

India, March 27 -- As the Kerala Forest Department intensifies efforts to capture and relocate a wild elephant moving around Vadakkanad in Wayanad district, the operation has entered a critical phase ... Read More


From forest to sea: A people's charter seeks to reshape Kerala's ecological future

India, March 13 -- A new policy document released by environmental groups in Kerala has called for a fundamental shift in governance that recognises the interdependence of forests, rivers, wetlands, f... Read More


Mangala: The tigress who could not return to the forest

India, March 11 -- High in the forests of the Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR), near the ancient Mangala Devi temple that stands quietly on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, a patrol team of forest watchers wa... Read More


As Kerala marks 50 years of the Idukki Hydroelectric Project, there are new questions facing hydropower in the state

India, March 5 -- As the Idukki Hydroelectric Project completes fifty years of power generation this year, Kerala finds itself reflecting on one of the most transformative engineering undertakings in ... Read More


In memoriam: R Nallakannu, the comrade who stood guard over Tamil Nadu's rivers

India, Feb. 26 -- R Nallakannu's politics began with rivers. Long before environmentalism became a language of policy or climate summits, he understood something simple and elemental. When a river is ... Read More


Muthanga, 23 Years later: The unfinished question of land and justice in Kerala

India, Feb. 23 -- Twenty-three years after the brutal police firing on landless Adivasis at Muthanga in Wayanad, the vexed tribal land question has once again moved to the centre of public debate in K... Read More


After Rivaldo: What the death of a tusker reveals about the future of South India's Nilgiris

India, Feb. 20 -- When Rivaldo, the well-known tusker of the Sigur plateau in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu, died on February 13 at around 50 years of age, forest watchers and residents across th... Read More


The macaque that refused to disappear

India, Feb. 19 -- A recent scientific analysis of lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) across fragmented landscapes of the Western Ghats has produced an unexpected finding. Instead of declining unifo... Read More