Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News item titled "Begging for breath: Trapped between industries Kochi residents gasp for fresh air" appearing in The New Indian Express dated 23.02.2024. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item. The news item reveal the …
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has restrained the Forest Department from removing the agricultural produce collected from the Thoothampara Estate which had been taken over by the government from the Poabs Group. The order was passed by Justice V Giri while considering a writ petition filed by the National Plantation …
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday admitted a public interest writ petition filed by Dr Abraham Paul and three other officebearers of the Kochi branch of the Indian Medical Association, praying to direct the authorities to prevent noise pollution by declaring areas falling within 100 …
KOCHI: District Collector M Beena said that around 300 land owners from Vadakkumbhagam, Mattoor and Chelamattom villages are expected to attend the meeting of the District Level Purchase Committee, formed for leading land acquisition for the Angamaly-Sabari Rail route. The meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday. The land …
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Friday directed the Kochi Corporation to file an affidavit regarding the steps taken by it for the collection and disposal of garbage in the city. The affidavit should specifically state as to whether or not the Corporation has been deputing staff for collection of …
KOCHI: As the World Animal Welfare Day on Oct 4 approaches, this website's newspaper came across a good Samaritan who saved a monitor lizard found nearly dead from a five-day old cleaver-wound on its neck.
KOCHI: Tribal people encroached the Devikulam divisional forest office premises on Saturday morning. A group of people, including women and children trespassed into the area. The police had stopped another attempt to encroach the forest land at Perinjamkutty on Friday. The tribal people, who were given land at Chinnakkanal as …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The systematic and scientific disposal of plastic and biodegradable waste by the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation was the cream of all surprises gifted by the Corporation to Kochi Mayor Mercy Williams. Mercy attentively listened to a presentation by Corporation officials about this system and other aspects of solid waste management, cleared …
KOCHI: Here is happy news for the greens. Aiming at creating an awareness in society about the bio-diversity of Mangalavanam, the Department of Forest will set up a Nature Study Centre at the sanctuary. Students, researchers and nature-lovers can make use of the centre once it becomes operational. "Mangalavanam has …
M R Vishnu Prasad, 27, P Neena, 23, and C Shanuga, 22, stand on M G Road in Kochi on a Tuesday morning wearing green jackets with the word, "Greenpeace' written in white. They have booklets and green-coloured petitions which contain an appeal to coastal MPs to raise the point …
The honeymoon is over for Mumbai Metro One Ltd, the entity that is to give the city the first phase of its Rs 19,500-crore, 146.5-km metro project. A PPP between Reliance Energy, the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) and an international company, it isn't exactly off the tracks, but …
Effects of industrial effluents on germination, growth, protein content and metal accumulation patterns in Hibiscus esculentus L. were studied. Effluent from two factories in the industrial belt of Cochin, Kerala were used to soak the seeds for germination and to irrigate the seedlings in the field after physico-chemical analysis. Results …
Cochin backwaters, a micro tidal estuary, undergo a characteristic transformation from a river dominated system during summer monsoon to a tide-dominant system during pre-monsoon season. The present study observes that as the river flow weakens after monsoon, the flushing of the estuary diminishes and the nitrogen and phosphorous loadings through …
Fluoride takes part in a number of geochemical and biochemical reactions. The activity of the fluoride thus makes the ion non conservative in many occations, though the ion is included in the major ions category. Preferential enrichment of fluoride is a general observations in the coastal and estuarine environment. The …
Mean-sea-level data from coastal tide gauges in the north Indian Ocean were used to show that low-frequency variability is consistent among the stations in the basin. Statistically significant trends obtained from records longer than 40 years yielded sea-level-rise estimates between 1.06
Burnt or buried, garbage needs land Urban India's tryst with garbage is played out in many theatres. Surat Municipal Corporation in Gujarat has developed a sanitary landfill of 3.6 hectares on a tract of saline land near Khajod village, about 15 km west of the city. The landfill was ready …
Documentary: Haritham Director: Rajendra Prasad Producer: Jaycee Foundation and Gothrabhumi films Mangala Vanam is a bird sanctuary in the heart of Cochin. Ostensibly so. But migratory birds have stopped visiting this mangrove since the last few seasons. Declared a protected area in 1972, this green lung in Kerala's coastal city …
Local Area Environmental Committee was constituted by the Kerala State Pollution Control Board in compliance of the direction issued by the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee. This environment audit report was prepared by the Local Area Environmental Committee, Eloor-Edayar, Kochi, dealing with 247 industries in the Eloor/Edayar industrial belt.
Local Area Environment committee under the term of reference was asked to conduct an environmental audit of 247 industries located in Eloor-Edayar industrial belt and report the effect on the ecology, environment and on the health of the local population with the specific reference to the study of raw materials, …
SCIENTISTS at the School of Marine Sciences in Cochin have discovered that shells of some molluscs, such as two-shelled clams, which store trace metals in their shells and tissues, are good biological indicators of water pollution levels. Detailed investigations on accumulation of trace metals in the clam Villorita cyprinoides, found …
