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Thursday 23 December 2021
WORLD SOIL DAY PROGRAME
Eco club in association with NSS conducted a webinar through Google platform on occasion of World Soil Day. It was a great session with the resource person Dr. R. Nagarani, Assistant professor of Tamil and NSS Officer,Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Sasun Jain College for women.
Sunday 19 December 2021
TREE PLANTING AND WEBINAR- WORLD SOIL DAY
Eco club in association with NSS has organized a tree planting activity in CTTE Campus and Webinar on the topic TREES OUR SAVIOURS by the resource person Dr. R. Nagarani, Assistant Professor of Tamil and NSS Officer
Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Sasun Jain College for Women.
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Saturday 18 December 2021
Doctors urge Centre to include Chennai in its clean air programme
Vishvaja Sambath, a dentist and a public health expert, said a study conducted between May and July, in 15 locations across the city, not only showed high PM2.5 levels, but also the presence of heavy metals, including manganese, nickel and lead, in the ambient air. “Air pollution is a year-round phenomenon in the city and needs to be addressed,” she said.
Wednesday 15 December 2021
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - AWARENESS VIDEO
Our environment is one of the most important aspects to survive on this planet. Moreover, it is the only thing that can make life sustainable.
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Tuesday 7 December 2021
Adapt on climate, not mitigate: Study
MUMBAI: With the COP26 UN conference mobilising efforts among nations to build an ambitious climate agenda, the responsibility shifts to corporates to focus on adaptation from just mitigation action till now. To help drive this, corporate goals and government regulations need to be altered to achieve decarbonisation goals, with company boards setting the bar higher, says a report by KPMG.
Courtesy: The Times of India
Making large campuses resilient to heavy rain
With the intense spell of rain like the one witnessed in November likely to become a frequent phenomenon owing to climate change, experts stressed on the need to make large open spaces more resilient to floods.
Courtesy : The Hindu
Saturday 4 December 2021
Meet Laungi Bhuiyan, a man from Bihar who digs out canal single-handedly
Laungi Bhuiyan said, “It took me 30 years to dig this canal which takes the water to a pond in the village. For the last 30 years, I would go to the nearby jungle to tend my cattle and dig out the canal.”
Courtesy: The Times of India
Chennai: Over 200 tonnes of garbage cleared from Broken Bridge
CHENNAI: In the last ten days, city corporation workers have collected 218 tonnes of garbage from beneath the Broken Bridge at the mouth of the Adyar. The rain-swollen river had spewed the city's detritus: empty liquor bottles, footwear, plastic and wood.
Courtesy: The Times of India
SC asks Centre, NCR states to implement panel's order to curb air pollution
The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Centre and the states in NCR to implement the orders of the panel to curb pollution and sought a proposal to ensure switching over of all industrial units to PNG or cleaner fuel in a time-bound manner or face closure while ruing that some news reports tried to "portray it as a "villain" that wants to close down schools here......
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Courtesy: Business Standard
“Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread” – Guterres
Our fragile planet is hanging by a thread.” Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, has summarised succinctly, in this phrase, the threatened future of the planet following the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
Countries emerged with a deal – the Glasgow Climate Pact – that was better than no deal and has been characterised as a ‘bridge’ to more ambitious action. COP26 President Alok Sharma revealed that at one point, it seemed a collective document would unravel completely.
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Courtesy: Casa climate
COP27, in Egypt, must focus on food systems
In any reimagination of food systems, now unequal and strained, the world has to factor in climate change adaptation
Courtesy: The Hindu
Saturday 27 November 2021
Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change
a new technique to clean the atmosphere of the second most powerful greenhouse gas people produce: methane. The technique could restore the concentration of methane to levels found before the Industrial Revolution, and in doing so, reduce global warming by one-sixth
Courtesy : The Conversation
Let lions live in peace. Don’t meddle in animal kingdom: HC
Reacting to the viral image of a lioness surrounded by tourist vehicles in the Gir sanctuary, the Gujarat high court on Friday opined that the activity of safari should be minimal, and the people should let the lions and lionesses live in peace and there should not be any meddling with the nature.
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Courtesy: Times of India
Friday 26 November 2021
New Covid Variant in South Africa With Highest Mutations So Far a Serious Concern: WHO
South Africa was the first country to detect the Beta variant, which was later labelled as a ‘variant of concern’ by the UN health agency due to its transmissibility and ability to evade vaccine-induced immunity.
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Courtesy: India.com
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launches NASA’s DART: First Test Mission To Defend Planet Earth.
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
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Courtesy: SciTechDaily
Thursday 18 November 2021
GREEN CAMPUS MOVEMENT
The idea of a green campus movement is deceptively simple. Creating a green educational campus not only makes a tangible environmental difference, it also educates those who are directly involved—the staff and students on the campus—as well as others by creating living examples that can be replicated.
Courtesy: The Center for Science and Environment
Wednesday 10 November 2021
ENVIRONMENTALIST AND AWARD WINNER- TULSI GOWDA
Tulsi Gowda, a 72-year-old tribal woman from Karnataka, was conferred India's fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri award on Monday for her contribution towards protecting the environment. She was barefoot and dressed in a traditional attire when she received the award from President Ram Nath Kovind during a ceremony in New Delhi on Monday
Since the age of 12, Tulsi has planted thousands of saplings in her lifetime and has been involved in multiple environmental conservation activities. She joined the forest department as a temporary volunteer, where she was recognised for her dedication to nature preservation. She was later offered a permanent position in the department.
Today, even at the age of 72, Tulsi Gowda continues to nurture herbs and share her vast knowledge with the younger generation to promote the importance of environmental conservation.
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Tuesday 9 November 2021
By 2030, half world’s population will be exposed to flooding, storms, tsunamis
By the year 2030, an estimated 50 per cent of the world's population will live in coastal areas which are exposed to flooding, storms and tsunamis
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Courtesy: UN News
Monday 8 November 2021
Tamil Nadu rivers in ICU, state must take steps for revival says experts
MADURAI: Stating that all rivers in Tamil Nadu are in the ICU as they do not have a right to life due to encroachments and pollution, water conservationist and environmentalist and waterman of India.
Sunday 7 November 2021
Friday 5 November 2021
9 lorries, 10 BOVs to handle waste from fireworks in Chennai.
Expecting the city to generate about 22 tonnes of waste from fireworks, Greater Chennai Corporation has put in place a plan to collect it separately and will coordinate with TNPCB to ensure it doesn't come in contact with regular waste
Courtesy: The Times of India