Munnar's elephant problem is really one of a landscape under siege

India, Sept. 10 -- At around 9 am on August 27, rain and mist around Thalakkulam near Pooppara in Kerala's Munnar region concealed a danger that residents of the state's high ranges have learnt to fea... Read More

Two recent fatal tiger attacks in Gudalur highlight the broken landscape of the Nilgiris

India, Sept. 6 -- Two fatal tiger attacks in the O' Valley near Gudalur have exposed the difficult intersection of wildlife corridors, plantations and densely populated settlements in Tamil Nadu's Nil... Read More

'Ammachi' finds a home in the forest

India, Sept. 3 -- A newly discovered frog in the forests of Tripura has given an unexpected afterlife to the memory of a Kerala woman who spent much of her own life caring for people. The frog, Amolo... Read More

Tamil Nadu drops plans for Chennai's second airport at Parandur after resistance from farmers

India, Aug. 25 -- Tamil Nadu has scrapped plans for a greenfield airport at Parandur after a sustained, 1,000-day protest by farmers of Ekanapuram and neighbouring villages. Chief Minister C Joseph V... Read More

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

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