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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


Guns, laws and crop raids: Kerala's wild boar culling policy caught in regulatory crossfire

India, Feb. 18 -- Kerala's long-running struggle with wild boar crop raids has entered a new phase of policy uncertainty after the state's Left Democratic Front government put on hold a controversial ... Read More


When giants get trapped: How Kerala's fishers are learning to save the world's largest fish

India, Feb. 13 -- It was early on the morning of Thursday, January 22, when the sea at Kochuthoppu, on the southern edge of Thiruvananthapuram, looked no different from any other winter morning. The s... Read More


Remembering T Madhava Menon (1929-2026): A life devoted to tribal justice, sustainable agriculture and humane governance

India, Feb. 13 -- T Madhava Menon, former IAS officer and scholar, has died aged 96 in Thiruvananthapuram Over a 35-year career, he shaped debates on tribal rights, land restoration, forest governanc... Read More