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.

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.

INDIA'S EXTREME AIR POLLUTION CAUSE FOAM ON YAMUNA RIVER

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Courtesy : CNBC Television YouTube channel

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








Chennai: After Diwali, air quality levels turn hazardous

Air Quality index ranging between 342 and 385, shows Tamilnadu pollution control board.

Government says an AQI above 100 causes breathing discomfort.

Wednesday 3 November 2021

COP26: India PM Narendra Modi pledges net zero by 2070

India has promised to cut its emissions to net zero by 2070 - missing a key goal of the COP26 summit for countries to commit to reach that target by 2050.


Courtesy: BBC news

Rapid, Climate-Informed Development Needed to Keep Climate Change from Pushing More than 100 Million People into Poverty by 2030.

A new World Bank report shows that climate change is an acute threat to poorer people across the world, with the power to push more than 100 million people back into poverty over the next fifteen years. And the poorest regions of the world – Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – will be hit the hardest.


Monday 1 November 2021