CHENNAI: The Chennai Auto Ancillary Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Company (CAAIIUC) held an interactive meeting with the unit holders of the Ambattur Industrial Estate on Saturday, to discuss various issues including stop sending treated water into Cooum river and Korattur lake.
Isotope studies have shown that the Sasthamcotta Lake, in Kollam, the biggest pure water lake in Kerala will disappear after 800 years. According to C Unnikrishna Warrier, a scientist in the Isotope
<p>Poachers cross the line, protect birds.</p>
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Subhash Datta Vs State of West Bengal & Others dated 01/06/2020. The matter related to Santragachi Jheel, a notified bird sanctuary.</p> <p>The
Pelicans and painted storks have been found dead in Hemmanahalli lake near here under mysterious circumstances.
Thiruvallur Collector gives assurance to petitioners CHENNAI: Thiruvallur Collector G. Sundaramoorthy said that adequate funds were available for undertaking various development works in lakes and water bodies in the district and urged local panchayat leaders to make use of them to benefit the farming community.
<p>Land degradation is as a result of broad range of scales and factors, which include biophysical, climatic, demographic and socio-economic. The aim of this paper was to provide an analysis of wetland
At least seven children have been killed while 185 others hospitalised due to the recent outbreak of measles in a village near Keenjhar Lake, Thatta. Representative of various leading humanitarian organisations
Udaipur: Three endangered species of tortoises have died in the Kalyansagar lake of the famous Tripureswari temple here during the last fortnight, official sources said on Tuesday. The district magistrate of South Tripura district, Shantanu Das said one tortoise died on Monday and two others had died during the last fifteen days.
Mumbai: Suburban collector Vishwas Patil has supported a citizens' initiative to restore the Juhu lake in JVPD and Pawan Hans base (runway) near Nehru Nagar. Spread over 64 acres, the water body, Juhu citizens say will solve the problem of floods in the area.
It is often the case with environmental threats that commercial interests in the target area, required to comply with legal prescriptions, are hard hit in the short term. But if they don
The case of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe exemplifies tribal vulnerabilities as a result of climate change. Preliminary socio-economic data and analysis reveal that the tribe’s vulnerability to climate
There are environmentally sound and cheaper methods of cleaning up water bodies than the conventional methods, and environmentalists are urging the State government and industries to use these phytoremediation techniques to clean up contaminated lakes like Hussainsagar, wetlands like Kolleru and contaminated sites of power and mining projects. A report by Professor Dr M.N.V.
A Vast Lake Trapped Under Ice Sheet Drained Into The Sea, Bringing Down Temperatures Paris: Canadian geologists say they can shed light on how a vast lake, trapped under the ice sheet that once smothered much of North America, drained into the sea, an event that cooled Earth's climate for hundreds of years. During the last ice age, the Laurentide Ice Sheet once covered most of Canada and parts of the northern United States with a frozen crust that in some places was three kilometres thick. As the temperature gradually rose some 10,000 years ago, the ice receded, gouging out the hollows that would be called the Great Lakes. Beneath the ice's thinning surface, an extraordinary mass of water built up
वडोदरा। महानगर सेवा सदन की लापरवाही के कारण पिछले दो दिनों से शहर के गोरवा, सुभानपुरा, गोत्री और हरीनगर क्षेत्र के 5 लाख लोगों को दूषित पानी मिल रहा है। यह पानी शेरखी के एमएलटी प्लांट से फिल्टर होकर आ
<p>The Chief Minister, Mr N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, has asked officials to take a middle path regarding the Kolleru Wildlife Sanctuary boundary reduction issue by protecting the interest of locals as well as protecting the lake ecology. The State Board for Wildlife, which met on Tuesday, could not arrive at a concrete solution for the demand of reducing the contour levels from +5 to +3.
Even as candidates belonging to major national parties woo voters with last minute promises of all-round development, issues related to wildlife, environment and animal welfare are not on agenda. Abhishek
With massive residential and commercial complexes continuing to come up around Bangalore's lakes, demands are getting louder to regulate such construction to save the precious water bodies. "Near water bodies we must not allow such complexes to come up," Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) vice president and former Infosys director T.V. Mohandas Pai told IANS.
ATTUR: The United Formers Association has urged the State Government to repair the two check dams constructed across the surplus course of the Thiyaganur Lake in Attur block, which remain in a state of neglect for long.
S V Upendra Charya Spread over 90 acres, a sewage filled shrinking tank, Karanji lake was revived by the Mysore Zoo Authority some thirty years ago under Asian Development Bank Project.
