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Kerala contains Nipah swiftly, but still lacks answers on how virus spills over

India, June 12 -- A 43-year-old man from Kerala's Kozhikode district is critically ill on ventilator support with a suspected Nipah infection, again raising questions over how the deadly virus repeate... Read More


Conflict in the backyard: In Karnataka, the forest has entered the field

India, June 2 -- Madhava Gowda no longer greets the day by its first light. He now senses its arrival through sound. His life changed irreversibly on the morning of October 16, 2025, when he entered h... Read More


Conflict in the backyard: Is 'Fortress Conservation' at the root of Kerala's human-wildlife clashes?

India, June 2 -- For generations, people in Wayanad, Kerala, have lived alongside wild animals. They learned to read their movements and adapted to the rhythms of the forest, adjusting to changing sea... Read More


India's first elderly department in Kerala will address a crisis rest of country has not recognised yet

India, May 31 -- For decades, Kerala's migration economy transformed the state socially and economically. Remittances built houses, funded education and lifted entire families into the middle class. B... Read More


Is V D Satheesan the 'green chief minister' that Kerala always needed?

India, May 18 -- For decades, environmental politics in Kerala lived at the fringes of power. Scientists warned about the destruction of the Western Ghats, wetlands vanished under concrete, rivers wer... Read More


Vagamon under siege: Hill cutting, tourism pressure and official inaction threaten Kerala's meadow highlands

India, April 30 -- High above the plains of central Kerala, where the districts of Idukki, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta meet, the hills of Vagamon rise in gentle undulations that have long defined one ... Read More


A sage for a fractured planet: Muni Narayana Prasad and the ethics of ecology

India, April 27 -- The passing of Muni Narayana Prasad on Saturday, April 25, at the age of 87, marks the loss of one of India's most original philosophical voices on sustainability. He did not speak ... Read More


Built to explode: Inside Virudhunagar's fireworks economy of routine death

India, April 24 -- Virudhunagar, a dry district in southern Tamil Nadu tucked into the rain shadow of the Western Ghats, has always lived with uncertainty. Agriculture has never been dependable here, ... Read More


When ritual meets risk: Fire, heat and the unlearned lessons of Thrissur Pooram

India, April 22 -- On April 21, 2026, as preparations gathered pace for Thrissur Pooram, a fireworks unit at Mundathikode in Thrissur district exploded into a series of devastating blasts that killed ... Read More


Humid heat emerging as India's most dangerous climate threat, with Kerala at the frontline, shows new study

India, April 17 -- A recent study published in the journal Climate Dynamics has offered the clearest explanation yet of how the threat of moist heat, a combination of high temperature and high humidit... Read More