Despite its green language, Budget 2022 may result in a net loss for the environment

The government’s focus on pursuing infrastructure projects and efforts to make it easier for business may result in environmental consequences.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Feb 11, 2022 · 02:50 pm

Interview: Indian Ocean’s Rahul Ram on how environmental and social issues influenced his music

Ram’s introduction to environment activism started when he spent a few days at Sunderlal Bahuguna’s home.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Oct 24, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Kole Birders: Citizen scientists in Kerala are helping build an atlas of the country’s bird species

The group of voluntary birdwatchers have been monitoring the population of resident and migrant birds in the Kole wetlands of Thrissur district.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Aug 15, 2018 · 02:30 pm

How an unprecedented drought has dealt Kerala’s Kole farmers a double blow

Rice growers say freshwater supply from rivers is low while saltwater has entered their fields from bunds not being built on time.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· May 21, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Drought in water-rich Kerala compels the state to start taking conservation seriously

Kerala is extending a rainwater harvesting programme to all parts of the state.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Dec 28, 2016 · 05:30 am

Kerala is finally realising the need to preserve its mangroves

There are hardly any mangroves left in Kerala.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Dec 07, 2016 · 09:30 pm

Neglecting natural buffers, Kerala is building walls to keep out the sea

Artificial barriers along Kerala’s vulnerable shore are insufficient to protect the thickly populated coastal areas.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Nov 11, 2016 · 07:30 pm

To save themselves from flooding, Chennai residents are getting their homes raised

After the ruinous floods last year, families in low-lying areas are raising their houses and buildings.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Nov 03, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Farmers in Kodagu are raising honeybees in their coffee estates to get sweeter returns

The famed coffee estates are experimenting with bee farms to add to incomes.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Sep 20, 2016 · 09:30 pm

Coorg's coffee planters are tracking climate change by recording rainfall patterns on their estates

A report has noted that the length of the rainy season had decreased by 14 days over the past 35 years. It also noticed a strong fluctuation in annual rainfall

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Sep 18, 2016 · 08:30 pm

Coorg farmers are now growing coffee that is helping the environment

A unique eco-certification initiative in Kodagu’s famous coffee estates offers fresh hope for preserving native rainforests of the Western Ghats.

S Gopikrishna Warrier

· Sep 17, 2016 · 07:30 pm