Bharathapuzha (Nilanadi) ,the second largest river of Kerala is dry in summer months resulting in water shortage to Palakkad,Thrissur and Malappuram district of Kerala. Many places here depend on Nila River for drinking water as well as for agricultural purposes. The life of the people here is so much interlinked with the river both socially and culturally. Nila is the pride of south Malabar for historic reasons.
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A team of scientists in India demonstrates that a microbe can act as a biocatalyst in a microbial fuel cell and produce electricity. An observation that may bring a breakthrough in green technology...
The much expected climate change conference in Copenhagen ended with a non-legally binding agreement which the parties said “politically important”.
(UNFCCC Press release on 19 December, 2009)
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen ended today with an agreement by countries to cap the global temperature rise by committing to significant emission reductions, and to raise finance to kickstart action in the developing world to deal with climate change.
The G-8 nations’ (group of eight leading industrial nations) meet in Toyako, northern Japan, is reported to have endorsed the idea of cutting global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. It is not expected that the present G-8 meet will come up with any workable solution to cut the greenhouse gases. The G-8 is yet to push forward stalled U.N.-led talks on forging a new accord to battle global warming by the end of next year.
Anything which gives a hope to reduce greenhouse gases is exciting!. New inventions and technologies are awaited to tackle the problem of growing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The recent claim on carbondioxide catcher using ion exchange resins, by a group of scientists is probably in the right direction.
The publication of Glen Peters (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and coauthors in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) has been identified as the top paper of the journal in 2007.
In their study (G. Peters et al., Environ. Sci. Tech., 2007, 41 (17), 5939–5944) they find that the Chinese have taken steps to improve their energy efficiency and still travel mainly on bicycles, a sustainable, zero-emissions mode of transport.
The World Health Organization warned that millions of people may face poverty, disease, hunger, and other atrocities due to climate change. The adverse effect is as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall and the worst sufferers will be from poor countries
A seminar and interactive session organized by CEET in Kottayam, Kerala, on August 18, 2007, attended by scientists, doctors, environmentalists, activists and students, analyzed various aspects of the recent outbreak of chikungunya in Kerala, the southern state of India, which created lot of panic among the inhabitants.
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