Environment

Two Hundred Seventieth Report on Environmental issues of Kerala in General and Kochi/Ernakulam in particular: Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests

The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests, present this Two Hundred Seventieth Report on "Environmental issues of Kerala in General and Kochi/Ernakulam in particular".

Publication Date: 
23/12/2015
Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Tags:
Environment, Kochi, Ernakulam, Kerala, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Waste Management, Rehabilitation, Marine Fisherfolk, Mangroves, Rivers, Vembanad, Lakes, Slaughter House
Solid Waste

City’s waste management system headed for a crisis

Corporation decides to stop accepting refuse from neighbouring local bodies

Publication Date: 
21/12/2015
K.S. Sudhi
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Waste Management, Kochi, Waste Disposal, Solid Waste
Solid Waste

Pollution Control Board to Look Into Dumping of Waste Around Kadamprayar

KOCHI: Complaints regarding dumping of untreated waste, including toilet waste from the nearby flats into the Kadamprayar, the main water source to SmartCity, Infopark and nearby areas, will be loo

Publication Date: 
18/12/2015
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Kochi, Waste Disposal, Water Resources, Smart City, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Solid Waste
Poverty

No Solution Yet for Urban Poverty at Smart Kochi

KOCHI: Despite all the hype over the future ‘Smart City’, Kochi - a ‘Metro-in-the-making’ - hides an invisible population.

Publication Date: 
10/12/2015
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Kochi, Poverty, Smart City, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Housing Construction
Habitat And Urbanisation

City should adopt Op Anantha to end waterlogging

KOCHI: On Monday, chief secretary Jiji Thomson said that Kochi was on the verge of facing a Chennai-like flood situation.

Publication Date: 
09/12/2015
Times Of India (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Kochi, Waterlogging, Chennai (T), Waste Management, Disaster Management
Solid Waste

Inspection finds waste mangement at Sabarimala inadequate

KOCHI: Following the inspection at Sabarimala, pollution control board (PCB) officials have decided to strengthen waste water collection network at the hill shrine.

Publication Date: 
07/12/2015
Times Of India (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Kochi, Waste Management, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Waste Recycling, Solid Waste
Environment

Panel seeks ATR on city’s eco issues

‘Any failure to initiate action as suggested by the panel will amount to contempt of Parliament’

Publication Date: 
26/11/2015
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Environment, Regulations, Eco-Sensitive Zone, Deforestation, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Metro, Kochi, Air Pollution, Waste Disposal
Environment

Rajya Sabha Panel to Discuss Environmental Issues

KOCHI:The Rajya Sabha Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Forests will hold talks with NGOs, civic organisations and experts at the Government Guest House here on Sunday.

Publication Date: 
16/11/2015
New Indian Express (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Environment, Compensatory Afforestation, NGO, Ecology, Kochi, Marine Life
Solid Waste

Govt. okays project for Rs.295-crore garbage plant

The government’s Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) cell has okayed a Rs.295-crore solid waste treatment plant in Brahmapuram.

Publication Date: 
12/11/2015
G. Krishnakumar
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Kerala, Waste Treatment, Waste To Energy, Kochi, Waste Management, State Electricity Board (SEB), Solid Waste
Water Pollution

Heavy metals pollution influence the community structure of cyanobacteria in nutrient rich tropical estuary

Anthropogenic inputs influence the community structure and activities of microorganisms, which may impinge the functioning of estuarine and coastal ecosystem. The aim of the present study was to understand the influence of dissolved heavy metals (Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu and Zn) on community structure of cyanobacteria in a nutrient rich tropical estuary, Cochin Estuary (CE), across the southwest coast of India. Dissolved heavy metals were higher in CE during dry season, with Zn as major pollutant.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2015
Abdulaziz Anas, Jasmin C, Sheeba VA & et al
Oceanography
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Tags:
Heavy Metals, Estuaries, Kochi, Kerala, Micro Organisms, Eutrophication, Wetlands, Waste Disposal, Water Pollution

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