Thiruvananthapuram: Radiation from mobile towers is not only taking a toll on human health but is also blamed for sparrows vanishing into thin air.

An environmental science expert team — led by Sainudeen Pattazhy — attributes the disappearance of sparrows to the electromagnetic fields and radiation effects created by mobile towers and mobile phones.

Cages Could Help Resolve Man-Animal Conflicts

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has come out with a tiger trap-cumtransfer cage (TTTC) that can be used in capturing tigers that stray out of the forests and tiger reserves in the state.

Stakeholders Can Make Comments And Suggestions

With the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) releasing the draft notification regarding the Kasturirangan report on its website on Tuesday, the state government plans to follow suit by publishing area-specific details of the 123 villages marked as Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESAs) by the end of this week.

Kochi: Kerala has asked Tamil Nadu to stop the latter’s plans to lay tiles along the gallery of the Mullaperiyar dam, and to carry out only routine annual maintenance work.

With Kochi corporation failing to improve the conditions at Kaloor slaughterhouse, Pollution Control Board (PCB), Ernakulam, is on the verge of sending a report to its headquarters in Thiruvanantha

The amended ecologicallysensitive areas (ESAs) in the state will be mapped using colour codes ranging from dark green to red, each colour representing green zones, water bodies, residential areas,

Biodiversity Board Will Fine-Tune ESAs: CM

Chief minister Oommen Chandy said on Tuesday that the state biodiversity board would begin the process of fine-tuning and implementation of ecologically-sensitive areas (ESAs) as per the guidelines issued in the draft notification by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF).

They Fall Under Ecological-Sensitive Zone-1 Classified By Gadgil Report

Thiruvananthapuram: The state nominated three-member expert committee that reviewed the Kasturirnagan committee report has highlighted the need to protect the ecologically-fragile areas that were overlooked in the Kasturiranagan report.

The Kerala State Biodiversity Board will publish the details of plantations and human settlements in the 123 villages, excluded from Ecologically Sensitive Areas (ESA) limits.

Thiruvananthapuram: Accepting Kerala’s demand, the ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) on Tuesday issued an office memorandum on the Kasturirangan-led High Level Working Group (HLWG) report t