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Opinion | Our ecological crisis through an Aarey Colony lens

Paradoxically, while environmental concerns are rising globally, we have political leaders, some of them Indian, who are beholden to lobbies or are in denial of the problem

4 min read17 Oct 2019
News

Turtles, torches, naps on a beach: The life of a nocturnal ecologist

Working at night is simultaneously demanding and irresistible in some primeval way. For all of us, that sudden sighting of a creature in the narrow beam of a torch is a pure rush, unlike any other, with little other sensory distraction

4 min read1 Sep 2021
Opinion

Opinion | Natural enemies vs man-made enemies

Many people feel that there is a trade-off between short-term economic growth imperatives and the need to preserve the ecology and environment

4 min read10 Dec 2018
Opinion

Opinion | Till when will we keep celebrating the destruction of the Himalayas?

As Indians, we haven't managed to build a hill station after independence, but we've destroyed the existing ones

4 min read10 Sep 2018
Politics

Bad dam management caused Kerala floods: Madhav Gadgil

Ecologist Madhav Gadgil, whose report on Western Ghats was rejected by the Kerala government, on what caused the Kerala floods and how the rebuilding process should be carried out

7 min read3 Sep 2018
Politics

Kerala floods highlight India’s poor dam management

Had the dam reservoirs in Kerala been emptied ahead of the onset of monsoon rains, damages from the floods would have been lower, shows analysis

3 min read21 Aug 2018
Mint-lounge

Siddharth Chakravarty dreams of a Coastal Rights Act

The best way to safeguard marine ecology is to empower fishing communities, says The Research Collective's Siddharth Chakravarty

6 min read12 Aug 2018
Mint-lounge

Down the memory tree

Trees matter because they have the power to shape our lives and our memories

4 min read30 Mar 2018
Mint-lounge

Assam: Providing a passage for wild elephants

A recent example shows how oil exploration and refining are blocking off the migratory paths of wild elephants

2 min read27 Mar 2018
Politics

Several Indian cities are on a quest to map sparrow populations before they disappear

Madras Naturalists' Society says the idea behind the census is to identify neighbourhoods in the city where sparrows still exist

2 min read22 Mar 2018
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