Malavika Vyawahare

Malavika Vyawahare is a science and environmental journalist and Columbia University graduate who currently shuttles between Réunion Island and Madagascar.

A deforested region of the Amazon.
Environment

A New Study Finds That Cutting Down One Forest Can Make Neighboring Forests Hotter

These temperature rises can also lead to local extinction of the native species living in those regions.

A man fills a bag with charcoal he and other men made after they cut down a patch of secondary forest near Andasibe in southwest Madagascar.
Environment

Madagascar's Rich Natural Heritage Is Hanging on a Knife's Edge, Experts Warn

The country's president has a poor environmental record, raising concerns over the preservation of Madagascar's iconic biodiversity.

A baby green turtle is held as marine turtle specialists prepare to release the more than 570 baby sea turtles.
Environment

A New Survey Finds That Green Turtles Numbers Are Increasing in the Pacific

But the results are not so rosy for the critically endangered hawksbill turtle.

The Aletsch glacier, the largest in the Alps, continues toward the river Rhone.
Environment

Thanks to Global Warming the Alps Could Soon Be Ice-Free

Even under moderate warming, Alpine glaciers would shed two-thirds of their present mass by the end of the century.