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.

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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.

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Courtesy: The Hindu

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