Sci&Tech, Medical and Envirnoment:

Chimpanzees moving through the forest take into account other chimps' ignorance or knowledge of a threat when they decide to raise the alarm.
Apes were more likely to make warning calls when they spotted a venomous snake if others in their troop had not seen the danger, researchers found.
The behaviour suggests the animals knew what their companions knew and made decisions on what warnings to give based on that information.

The Kerala Cabinet on Friday decided to give subsidies to residential flats for setting up waste treatment units.
The Chief Minister said that the government planned to promote decentralised waste management. To convince people of the efficacy of the methods, treatment units would be set up in the official residence of the Ministers and important government offices.
3 regional solid waste treatment plants proposed to be built shortly using new technology

The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) has called for a “careful cumulative impact analysis of various development activities” in the plains and coastal regions of Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra.
It has observed that the “entire region has been seriously impacted, both environmentally and socially, by a number of mining, power projects, and polluting industries.
Panel has accused the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) of “suppressing” the Zoning Atlases for Siting of Industries (ZASI), “apparently under unfair pressure.”
For the Western Ghats regions of the districts, the panel prescribed “an indefinite moratorium on new environmental clearances for mining in Ecologically Sensitive Zones 1 and 2 and phasing out of mining from ESZ 1 by 2016.”