I had come to study wild boars in Wayanad in Kerala in 2023 because I had heard that wild boar-human conflict is increasing. Since Wayanad is a fertile terrain, agriculture is the mainstay of the people; however, increasing ...

Human–wildlife conflict (HWC) is increasingly recognized as a critical socio-political issue in Kerala, South India. In response to the rise in HWC, the Kerala government classified it as a state-specific disaster, a move ...

The turn towards deep entanglement precipitated by the Anthropocene has seen a rise in probiotic approaches towards microorganisms that highlight human-microbe relationalities. However, COVID-19 complicates this relationality ...

Animal narratives have not been a major part of the coronavirus pandemic other than to frame animals as “epidemic villains” whose relations with humans are either zoonotic or pathological. In this context, this article ...

Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic association of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner, either a green alga or a Cyanobacteria, grow in diverse climatic conditions and on equally diverse ...

Millions of people on the urban settlements in Asia rely on groundwater for fulfilling daily water needs. And while groundwater storage is vast, its replenishment is limited, and many aquifers are exhibiting signs of ...

While determination of driving forces for eco-innovation has been evaluated largely in the literature, questions about its implementation in the construction industry and the factors that can predict its future likelihood ...

Clean energy companies often require more costly investment in technology innovation than traditional energy companies, which poses higher technological risks. Therefore, many inconclusive debates have arisen concerning ...

Hydrodiplomacy in South Asia is in a nascent stage, primarily focusing on data exchange and limited state-to-state interactions, leaving aside an array of organic approaches to understand the facets of water diplomacy and ...

Understandings of what urban flood infrastructure is and how it ought to operate have changed over time and differed within cities. This article considers changing narratives and practices of flood mitigation in Guwahati, ...