Cheruvayal Raman, keeper of Wayanad's vanishing rice heritage, dies at 74

India, Oct. 14 -- Cheruvayal Raman, the Padma Shri-winning tribal farmer from Wayanad who preserved indigenous rice varieties, died on October 14 at the age of 74. Known affectionately as Ramettan, h... Read More

Western Ghats ESA: Seventh draft faces six-state resistance as conservation hangs in balance

India, Oct. 12 -- The Union government's seventh draft notification to declare 56,825.7 square kilometres of the Western Ghats across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu an Eco... Read More

India on e-wheels: Kerala's electric future may not always travel on four wheels. Some of it is already moving quietly across the water

India, Sept. 30 -- Nearly a decade after 'Aditya', India's first solar-powered passenger ferry, entered service, Kerala is trying to turn solar and electric propulsion from an experiment into an impor... Read More

India on e-wheels: Kochi's electric experiment offers a blueprint for Kerala's EV transition

India, Sept. 29 -- Kochi's Metro Connect shows how electrifying public transport, not just private cars, can reshape urban mobility in Kerala. Its 15 electric feeder buses link neighbourhoods to Metr... Read More

India on e-wheels: Kerala is electrifying its vehicles. But is it actually cleaning up transport?

India, Sept. 28 -- Kerala's roads are rapidly filling with electric scooters, cars and three-wheelers, but the state is adding new vehicles faster than it is replacing old ones, diluting environmental... Read More

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

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