Overtourism in India: In northern Kerala's Kannur, people are protesting against a rich laterite ecosystem 'being loved to death'

India, Aug. 23 -- Residents and environmentalists in Kannur, northern Kerala, rallied on August 22, 2026, to protect Madayippara, a unique laterite plateau now threatened by overtourism and commercial... Read More

Kerala's recent floods show Pamba river, Vembanad-Kuttanad wetland system under enormous strain: Experts

India, Aug. 17 -- Kerala's July 2026 floods expose a river-wetland system pushed to breaking point. Experts say the Pamba and the Vembanad-Kuttanad complex have lost most of their natural capacity to... Read More

Kerala wants to airlift wildlife out of conflict zones. Can moving animals 'solve' the problem?

India, Aug. 14 -- Kerala is looking at an increasingly dramatic response to an increasingly difficult problem: what to do with wild animals that repeatedly enter human settlements. The state, squeeze... Read More

In memoriam: M P Parameswaran was the scientist who taught Kerala to question development

India, Aug. 11 -- M P Parameswaran, a nuclear scientist turned people's educator, transformed Kerala's understanding of science and development. Leaving BARC in 1975, he took complex ideas to ordinar... Read More

Muthanga verdict raises disturbing questions about the law reaching the powerless through the criminal process, and not the powerful

India, Aug. 10 -- The Muthanga verdict, delivered 23 years after a deadly clash over Adivasi land rights, exposes a stark imbalance in India's criminal justice system. Adivasi leaders face conviction... Read More

In Kuttanad, Kerala's 'rice bowl', an arterial road is symbolic of the state's changing relationship with its wetlands and floodplains

India, Aug. 7 -- The arterial Changanassery-Alappuzha Road, known across Kerala simply as the AC Road, has once again exposed how expensive it can be when engineering fails to understand ecology. The... Read More

Kerala's latest floods show state yet to internalise lessons from 2018 on ecological degradation and unsustainable land use

India, Aug. 5 -- Eight years on from the deadly 2018 floods, Kerala has been deluged again. This time, experts Down To Earth spoke to say the mathematics of floods in the state has changed drastically... Read More

Two years after the Mundakkai-Chooralmala catastrophe, Wayanad and Kerala are at a crossroads

India, Aug. 2 -- The silence at the Puthumala burial ground on July 30, 2026, was heavier than the monsoon clouds hanging over Kerala's Wayanad district. Families carrying flowers walked slowly betwee... Read More

Vizhinjam at a crossroads: As MSC eyes a stake, Kerala confronts questions of monopoly, pollution, and the price of maritime ambition

India, July 16 -- The proposed sale of a 49 per cent stake in Adani Vizhinjam Port Private Limited to Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), the port-operating arm of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC),... Read More

After Kalladi: Should Kerala rethink building a tunnel through its most fragile mountains?

India, July 10 -- In the aftermath of the tragic landslide that occurred on July 7, 2026, at Kalladi in Kerala's Wayanad district, a debate is raging over whether the state should go ahead with the am... Read More

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