Why do landslides keep occurring in Kerala’s Idukki district?

It is a history mapped in tragedies – of climate change, deforestation, reckless construction and alarm bells ignored

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Aug 15, 2020 · 09:00 am

Traditional houses that served generations of Ladakhis are unable to cope with climate change

Average summer rainfall has quadrupled in ten years, leading to annual floods, more pests and leaks in houses that were built to deal with snow.

Rama Dwivedi

· Sep 18, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Planting trees is a good idea, but not everywhere – especially not in grasslands

Adding trees can alter how grassy ecosystems function.

Kate Parr and Caroline Lehmann, The Conversation

· Aug 03, 2019 · 11:30 pm

As urbanisation destroys Bengaluru’s green cover, religious spaces preserve native tree species

While the city’s parks and streets are growing exotic plants, native trees are flourishing around churches, temples, cemeteries and even roadside shrines.

Vinita Govindarajan

· May 09, 2018 · 07:30 am

Dawn of the Anthropocene: Five ways we know humans have triggered a new geological epoch

We're in a new geological era, say scientists.

Jan A. Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams, The Conversation

· Jan 11, 2016 · 10:30 pm

How climate change efforts by developed countries are hurting Africa’s rural poor

Far from the expected development, forestry plantations and other carbon market initiatives in Uganda have severely compromised ecologies and livelihoods of the local people.

Kristen Lyons and Peter Westoby, The Conversation

· Sep 19, 2015 · 11:30 pm