January 2021

 

India’s food science respects biodiversity, the value of all life- and conscious eating.

 

Climate urgency: India and the world

 

NIOT to upgrade buoys to study mid-sea air quality

 

CRZ clearance needed for SWD along ECR

 

Buckingham Canal on MRTS stretch to become green plaza

 

Drain along ECR flouts green laws, says NGT report

 

Work on Storm water drains on ECR stopped, Corpn. tells NGT

 

Groundwater levels up, highest in Perungudi, Valasaravakkam

 

Researchers plan to monitor sewage for Covid 2^nd wave

 

Fishers marina beautification : HC

 

Life cycle analyses shows a plant - based diet is most nutritious with least environmental impacts

 

Water Museum coming up at Kilpauk

 

Siruvani hills identified as butterfly super-hotspot

 

New fruit fly named after siruvani

 

Cooum to get 4.5 lakh saplings for eco-restoration, flood mitigation 

 

 

 

February 2021

 

Provide wide publicity, seek public opinion before finalizing CZMP: NGT

Clean energy post covid-19

 

From a bulbul on my balcony to pheasants in the hills, nature has gifted me discovery

 

NGT orders firms to pay 2.24 cr for polluting Cauvery

 

Rs.816 crore project planned to restore Pallikaranai Marsh

 

Govt. assures NGT to renovate polluted putheri lake at Rs.2,000 cr

 

Sea turtle nesting season is good so far

 

Genetics can review endangered, even extinct species but with safeguards

 

Hul to be plastic waste neutral this yr

 

INCOIS to go for aerial mapping of ocean floor

 

 

 

March 2021

 

Experts stress on scientific process for Miyawaki forests

 

Since the tsunami: India and Japan are strengthening ties in disaster risk reduction and building resilient infrastructure

 

Ploughing a new furrow in the agri-regulatory system

 

Seaweed is restorative - it boosts our well being and saves marine biodiversity

 

Become Climate Champions

 

Eight new species of birds spotted

 

Climate and Consciousness

 

Water bodies can be revived only if sewage inlets plugged

 

Coral reefs can protect islands in Gulf of Mannar

 

Chennai lost two thirds of farmland in 11 years

 

3 observatories to monitor coral bleaching

 

Niti Aayog vision for great Nicobar ignores tribal ecological concerns

 

 

 

April 2021

 

National Bird of the Netherlands makes a pit stop at Trichy

 

Green Panel slaps Rs.10 crore fine on Mamallapuram resort

 

India has U.S as ally in fighting climate change, says envoy

 

Two tagged migratory birds spotted in salt pans in Manakudy bird reserve

 

Dumping of garbage foiled near Anamalai, trucks seized

 

Better food waste management will give india both nutritional and environmental security

 

20K Olive Ridley hatchings released into sea

 

Basic nations oppose EU move on carbon border tax

 

 

 

May 2021

 

Waders yet to arrive at Perumbakkam marshland

 

Explain steps taken to save trees in non-forest-areas, HC tells TN

 

Now, raise an oxygen farm indoors

 

Coral reef near Palk bay bleached as sea temperature is up

 

Green panel allows great nicobar plan to advance

 

Bring the tourists backEcologically sensitive corridor in Naduvattam under threat

 

Biomedical waste generation doubles

 

U.S. slider turtles pose a threat in northeast

 

186 elephants killed on rail tracks in over 10 years

 

New skink species from Western Ghats

 

Polluted Flows the cooum, still

 

The many benefits of an eco tax 

 

                   

June 2021

 

Capacity up in 2 ecologically resorted lakes in Siruseri

 

Study links air pollution to COVIS-19 cases and deaths

 

Repeated encroachment of lakes raises concern

 

What’ behind the mushroom boom?

 

Indian Navy deploys ship to assist in seabed survey

 

State losing several hillocks to indiscriminate MSand mining

 

CAG raps Metrowater for poor sewage collection

 

Beautification of Buckingham canal to be finished by October

 

Ocean researchers find landslide - prone zones that cause tsunamis

 

Corporation’s zero waste plan will take off before year end

 

50.79 ha of Kallar corridor declared a private forest

 

Coastal waters still a cesspool of plastic debris

 

India to launch deep ocean mission

 

Operation Olivia to the rescue of Olive Ridleys

 

Significant progress in SDGs on clean energy, health: NITI index

 

Strong policies on black carbon can sharply cut glacier melt: World Bank study

 

Chemical biodiversity, securing earth’s future 

 

 

 

July 2021

 

 

Meghalayas living root bridges and Kerala’s kuttanad show indigenous climate resilience

 

 

 

With climate change, nature will command us - sustainable architects must respect that

 

Bill on panel to manage NCR air quality tabled in LS

 

 

Single-use plastics back in use

 

 

Srivilliputhur sanctuary has the highest leopard density in Western Ghats: report

 

 

Migratory birds may skip marsh as pollutants put native fish at risk

 

 

Civic body seeks resident’s help to make city greener

 

 

Channels in city likely to be rejuvenated in a few years

 

 

Chennai Corporation to start mass movement for planting trees

 

 

Protecting water bodies is the duty of State Govt., says NGT

 

 

Squatters big and small squeeze out city’s water sponge as officials look on

 

Study finds heavy metals in ambient air in city

 

 

High level of metals, PM2.5 found in city’s air you’re breathing

 

 

Pulicat, potential tourism spot, neglected

 

 

shining a spotlight on native fish species

 

 

Vulture population on the rise in tiger reserve

 

 

Haunting Our seas: How ‘ghost nets’ threaten marine life human beings

 

 

No non farming activity on wetlands

 

 

Standard operating procedure soon for capture, release of wild elephants

 

 

Corporation debris kills Miyawaki forest

 

Environment Ministry’s memorandum stayed

August 2021

Rehabilitation row delays Cooum project

Dredged sea sand dumped into Kosasthalaiyar has toxic metals

Rs. 2,300cr spent to clean Cooum, but dumping of sewage continues

Air quality commission bill for National Capital region cleared

City’s air quality improves from ‘satisfactory’ to ‘good’

Corpn. must halt work on ECR stormwater drains, says NGT

HC scanner on Tangedco’s coal conveyor on river

Court seeks action - taken report on coastal violations

Glaciers will keep shrinking : IPCC report

IPCC report forecasts a future of severe weather

Climate report must be death knell for fossil fuels’

Remove sqatters from Ramapuram lake now: NGT

TN coast eroding, Budget to focus on Climate change 

September 2021

Desilt three estuaries of Pulicat lake, Says fishermen

Recycling unit in Kodungaiyur to begin operations soon

Tech to bring down human elephant conflict

India must commit to net zero emissions

Winged visitors arrive in Pulicat

TN eyes blue tag for Marina, 9 other beaches

TN to add 10 effluent treatment plants

High Court asks centre, State to clarify on eco-sensitive zone around MTR

28% of 1,38,000 assessed species face extinction

Now, online portal to geo-tag industrial polluters in state

Corporation to offer incentives for source segregation of waste

Soil microbes can make for a greener revolution

Green hydrogen, a new ally for a zero carbon future

Explain steps to protect water bodies, forests: HC tells TN chief secretary

Consult us before taking up SWD work, says ECR residents

NGT asks govt to revisit construction of drains on ECR

Improved water management system for toxic textile effluents developed

Climate change impacts food and nutritional security – Earth needs regenerative farming

Corporation draws up plans to stop flow of plastic waste into the sea

Projects proposed to mitigate floods in city’s southern parts

Western Ghats offer major additions to flora

Deep sea microbes help develop low cost oil spill solution