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Intertidal is Yuvan Aves's extraordinary, personal exploration of the rich wildlife offsetting the urbanity of Chennai, India. While its focus is a small strip of Indian coast, its issues are global newscientist.com/article/mg2663…

‘Development at the cost of Nicobar Islands’ Speaking of Science - in The Hindu today, 4 May 2025. For more info on the project or our book pls write to me at [email protected]

For ten years, most of the country mistook a high follower count + propaganda for competence. Can't handle the economy, Covid, inequality, the threat of war. Tore Indians apart when we need a moral and pragmatic pluralism. Created only hate factories and billionaire wealth.

SUMMER COMES TO END TODAY. Rains chances increase for North Tamil Nadu including KTCC (Chennai) from today. An exciting weekend ahead =i==================== One of the most unique years for Tamil Nadu. There was no heat wave seen in Tamil Nadu this year and Chennai will not

"This deep discrepancy between the religious recognition of rivers –– the Ganga, the Yamuna –– as sacred, and the ecological devastation of those same rivers is incomprehensible..." A conversation between two legends Robert Macfarlane & prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 - hindustantimes.com/books/natures-…

#EXCLUSIVE: A new Silica sand mine is planned inside the eco-sensitive zone of #Kazhuveli bird sanctuary, which is one of the biodiversity-rich #Ramsar wetland sites in #TamilNadu. As per the proposal, Tamil Nadu Minerals Limites will remove 40k tonnes of silica sand from 3.75

Salt production in India is undertaken by thousands of workers who spend hours in the sun, even during heatwaves. This has caused chronic kidney dysfunction among them. In my first for In These Times I trace this disease burden. inthesetimes.com/article/cost-o…

Episode 6 of From The Marginlands, which I co-host with Arati Kumar-Rao , just dropped: youtu.be/pijAgSW2UO0?si… This one is wide-ranging: we discuss flooded cities, water conservation, city planning etc in light of recent events. And our guest is the brilliant naturalist and

Yesterday Chief Secretary, Govt. of Tamil Nadu held a high-level meeting and it was decided to conduct a short-term impact assessment study and drone survey in the affected areas in #Kanniyakumari due to plastic nurdle spill, an environmental disaster which still unfolding after a Liberian commercial

How many know that #Kochi shipwreck had happened inside “Malabar Upwelling Region”, which regarded as one of the world’s most biodiversity rich areas for commercial fishes. So, the current major plastic #nurdlespill will be having devastating impact on fishermen livelihood as

Chennai condemns the murders of Adivasi environmental defenders in Chhattisgarh by the Centre, in the name of Naxal encounters, to clear paths for corporates to acquire coal blocks in old growth forest.

Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by lsrael. #Madleen

SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Rima Hassan is a French citizen. Pressure the foreign ministries and help us keep them safe! E: [email protected] & [email protected] X : @FranceDiplo_EN & France Diplomatie 🇫🇷🇪🇺 &

While #Madleen must be released immediately, every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity, and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together—united, they will be unstoppable. #BreakingTheSiege is a legal duty for states, and a moral imperative for all of us.

. Freedom Flotilla Coalition was in full accordance with maritime, humanitarian and international law carrying important aid to Gaza and they’ve been kidnapped! The lies that Israel spewed on not blocking aid to Gaza is on full display now more than ever! #FreeTheMadleen12

Today is Mohammed’s funeral; he was murdered by an Israeli drone strike yesterday. This man was nothing but a shining example of humanity, doing his part to support the environment.

Congratulations to our author Yuvan Aves on being longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing—arguably the most prestigious award for nature writing in the UK, and perhaps globally. Yuvan is the first Indian, and possibly the only South Asian, to ever be nominated!

And fabulous to see M.Yuvan' stirring and wise Intertidal on the longlist of the Wainwright Prize, alongside other favourites from Chloe Dalton's Raising Hare to Richard Mabey's The Accidental Garden. wainwrightprize.com/longlist-2025/

This week, State Planning Commission - Tamil Nadu has published an important report titled "Urban Growth and Thermal Stress: A Decadal Assessment of Built-up Area and Climate Interactions in Tamil Nadu". This was the first time a block-level #heatexposure assessment was done and studied different heat drivers