Is it on the right track?

Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment …

READ MORE 31 Oct 1992

Treasures of Silent Valley

Down To Earth traveller Jemima Rohekar's stunning photos of the Silent Valley National Park opens up before us a diversity of life rarely experienced

READ MORE 03 Feb 2017

Small sweet success

Farmers in the Western Ghats warm up to wonder fruit kokum after local organisations create a market for it

READ MORE 05 Jul 2015

Six environmental laws to be amended soon

An ongoing conference in the capital to decide on changes in crucial environmental laws, as proposed by the Centre

READ MORE 07 Apr 2015

Nine new frog species found in Western Ghats

In 2014, 41 new species of frogs have been found, all in the Western Ghats

READ MORE 12 Dec 2014

Wild & fragile

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that …

READ MORE 15 Aug 1996

When the hills turn blue

... it is the elusive kurinji flowering in the Western Ghats, blossoming faithfully every 12 years

READ MORE 30 Nov 1994

Troubled botanists

READ MORE 15 Nov 1992

Drilling in details

Hartman de Souza decodes Goa's mining machinery, which has defrocked the state's environment

READ MORE 01 Jul 2016

New species of frog discovered in Western Ghats

It has been named Ghatixalus magnus after its large size, making it the biggest known tree frog in the Western Ghats

READ MORE 26 Nov 2015

Centre lifts ban on mining, power projects in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg

Environment ministry decision is applicable only to talukas not falling in Western Ghats in the two Maharashtra districts, moratorium stays in …

READ MORE 28 Jul 2014

Forests under fire

We need not burn forests to get good fodder for cattle. Our lands are rich with green grass without the fires

READ MORE 13 May 2014

Is it on the right track?

Controversy has dogged the Konkan railway project since its inception. Today, many influential Goans are up in arms against the present alignment …

READ MORE 05 Jan 2012

Wild & fragile

The Western Ghats in the south of India have forests which are, for some plant species, their exclusive home on this earth. No wonder then, that …

READ MORE 05 Jan 2012

Lethal lines

READ MORE 15 Sep 1996

Leaf storm

Indian scientists are resorting to tissue culture to salvage plants facing extinction

READ MORE 15 Dec 1994

Kerala brick industry taking over rice fields

The fast-expanding brick industry (in Kerala) is causing irreversible damage to paddy-fields in a state that is already beset by an acute rice …

READ MORE 15 Apr 1993

Requiem for wasteland development

READ MORE 30 Sep 1992

Western Ghats: Kerala seeks more time from the Centre to remap ESAs

The maps show redefined ecologically sensitive areas in the 123 villages that were identified by K Kasturirangan committee on conservation of …

READ MORE 19 May 2014

MoEF accepts Western Ghats boundaries suggested by Kerala

Extensive lobbying by the Congress-led state may have led to the decision, it is believed

READ MORE 19 Mar 2014

I was dropped because I stood for Western Ghats conservation: P T Thomas

P T Thomas, senior Indian National Congress leader and sitting Member of Parliament from Idukki Lok Sabha constituency, has been denied a ticket …

READ MORE 19 Mar 2014

Western Ghats conservation now a poll issue in Kerala’s Idukki

Congress denies ticket to sitting MP P T Thomas, fields debutant

READ MORE 19 Mar 2014

Kerala to form new panel to study Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats

Environmentalists say the government and political parties are buying time by appointing new committee now

READ MORE 22 Oct 2013

Karnataka cancels leases of two mini hydel projects in Western Ghats

Developer Maruthi Power Gen had fudged facts to show one project as two to circumvent clearances from Centre

READ MORE 29 May 2013

Is this a sign?

Rainfall in the Western Ghats has been steadily declining, triggering fears of a drought in one of the world's most water-rich regions

READ MORE 17 Oct 2016