Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has decided to take up the preservation of Sasthamcotta Lake, the biggest freshwater lake in the state, giving top priority, and would explore the possibili

The Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) has released a comprehensive study on the Asramam mangrove forests on the banks of Ashtamudi Lake in Kollam city.

The draft Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for Kochi Corporation area and Maradu municipalities will be put out for public hearing next week.

Drive to be held in all HS schools in district

Road Fund Board to take loans for work

A Rs.10,000-crore project for the development of 22 roads, including the hill highway, in the State to overcome traffic problems was cleared by the Cabinet on Wednesday.

Syzygium travncoricum, a tree endemic to Kerala, is no longer ‘critically endangered’ as classified on the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Field studies conducted by the Kerala Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in the wake of the IUCN classification suggest that the tree can now move to the ‘endangered’ list.

Known locally as kulavetti or vadhamkolli, the tree entered the IUCN’s ‘critically endangered’ list on the basis of a Conservation Assessment Management Plan (CAMP) workshop conducted under the Biodiversity Conservation Prioritisation Project India in 1998. The IUCN had then suggested periodic updating of the classification based on information provided by authoritative agencies.

The budget proposal to aid local bodies in taking up waste-to-energy projects in public-private partnership mode is expected to improve urban waste management in Kochi and other cities.

Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had proposed “to support municipalities implementing waste-to-energy projects by offering viability gap funding, repayable grant and low-cost capital”.