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Congo Cobalt and Climate Justice
How sustainable really is 'sustainable technology' when it is linked to human rights violations in Central Africa? Read how cobalt mining is at the heart of the 2023 Congolese conflict here. Cartoon...
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Porcupine Crests
On porcupine crests from my column with Roundglass Sustain. India has three species of porcupines: the Indian Crested, the Himalayan (Malayan) Crestless, and the Asiatic Brush-tailed porcupine.
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Namibia Ecuador and Australia
Quiz time! Pick the 'developed' country out of the three: Namibia, Ecuador, or Australia?Cartoon for DW Environment.
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Black Spotted Croaker the State Fish of Gujarat
Gujarat's newly declared State Fish, the Black-spotted Croaker or 'Ghol' is 'near-threatened' on the IUCN Red List because of overfishing and export of swim bladders for Chinese medicine. Hopefully,...
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A Chinstrap Penguin Welcomes the UN Secretary General to Antarctica
Scientists have recently uncovered that Chinstrap Penguins snooze more than ten thousand times a day, when nesting! With war mongers and fossil fuel bigwigs still calling the shots around the world, we...
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UAE at COP28
The chief stand-up comedian of the greatest comedy show on earth, COP28, has not disappointed. "No science behind the demand to phase out fossil fuels"- ADNOC Head and COP 28 President, Sultan al...
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Live Cartoons at COP28 with the Global Resilience Partnership
Live cartoons done for the Global Resilience Partnership's Cop Resilience Hub sessions at COP28. These are from the session on accelerating access to finance at the local level, with speakers from...
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Switzerland Wolf Culling
Peaceful Switzerland. Neutral Switzerland. WILD Switzerland! Cartoon from my column with The Hindu on Switzerland's controversial wolf cull, starring Environment Minister Albert Rosti. Amidst major...
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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve
(click on the image for a larger view)In my first project for the forest department of my home state, Maharashtra, I travelled to Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve last year to create this illustrated...
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War Budgets versus Climate Budgets
War budgets versus climate budgets. Cartoon from my Gocomics gallery, also available royalty free on my Cartoonstock gallery.
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American Bird Nomenclature
A controversy is brewing in the world of ornithology and birdwatching, with the American Ornithological Society's proposal to rename birds with problematic eponyms, as many of these names celebrate...
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COP28 a Summary
A summary of all the 'phase-out' negotiations at the recently concluded COP 28 Dubai. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.
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CPCL and the Chennai Oil Spill
The Chennai Petroluem Corporation Limited and the Chennai oil spill.
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Serotine Bats and Sex
A pair of Serotine bats recently made news after being recorded on a church camera making love (you read that right), albeit ‘non-conventionally’, making them the first known wild mammals to indulge in...
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The Nicobar Pigeon and the Dodo
Did you know that the Dodo's closest living relative lives in India? And that its genome may soon be used in the efforts to bring the Dodo back from extinction? And that its own existence, like all of...
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Plum headed Parakeet Make Up
Ever overdone your make-up and felt you resemble a Plum-headed Parakeet? Cartoon from my column with Roundglass Sustain.Defying beauty stereotypes, it is the male Plum-headed Parakeet that likes loud...
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New Species of 2023
Newly discovered species from 2023 congratulate India's biologists for all the discoveries and rediscoveries made this year! Let's hope that our biologists will BRB with new ground-breaking science in...
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Extinct Species 2024
Say hello, well, goodbye actually, to five among the twenty one species to be declared extinct this year. While the Little Mariana Fruit Bat, Bridled White Eye, Molokai Creeper and the Flat Pigtoe...
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Rediscovery of the Golden Mole
Jessie, a South African Border Collie trained to sniff elusive ground moles out by the Endangered Wildlife Trust, rediscovered the De Winton’s Golden Mole, which had been presumed extinct! Here’s a new...
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A New Restaurant in the Hood
A familiar sight across the forests of peninsular India, Rufous Treepies are opportunistic foragers and very dependable earbuds for Sambar deer! Comic from my Roundglass Sustain column.
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