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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


Bird flu resurfaces in Tamil Nadu after mass crow deaths in Chennai, triggering statewide surveillance

India, Feb. 6 -- More than 1,000 crows died across Chennai in late January and early February, with tests confirming the presence of the H5N1 avian influenza virus The deaths have triggered statewide... Read More


Kerala's debt write-off for Wayanad landslide survivors marks a new chapter in disaster justice

India, Feb. 4 -- When the massive landslides tore through Mundakkai and Chooralmala in Kerala's Wayanad district in July 2024, they did more than wipe out houses, plantations, and livelihoods. They a... Read More