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India inching towards water scarcity: Union Minister Harish Rawat
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Air, noise pollution raise cardiovascular risk
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Carbon-Intensive Investors Risk $6 Trillion
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India aims to double its renewable energy capacity to 55000 megawatts by 2017, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Vandana Shiva: Maharashtra's water is going to sugar and grape barons
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LOS ANGELES: The Empire State Building, the Eiffel Tower and the Kremlin -- along with a slew of other landmarks around the world -- went dark Saturday to draw attention to climate change.
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NEW DELHI: Violations of green norms and clearances can be appealed against by any citizen and not just someone directly or indirectly affected by a project, the National Green Tribunal has held, widening the scope of green litigation in the country.
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MEXICO CITY: Global investment in clean energy climbed to a record $250 billion last year despite adverse worldwide economic conditions, the president of the International Solar Energy Society said in an interview in Mexico.
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WASHINGTON: A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
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Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage.
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Obama seeks $2 billion in research on cleaner fuels
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Home satellite TV provider DISH Network Corp has signed a deal to run 200 of its trucks on propane, in the latest indication that the niche fuel could soon rival natural gas as the United States’ cheap transport alternative.
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CHENNAI: The troublesome water hyacinth could be an environment-friendly source of fuel. Siddha doctors say the water hyacinth is an excellent source of biogas because of its high content of hydrocarbons. Even better, the plant may be used to produce biogas with minimal pollution, they say.
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Fifty years ago I began my undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. It is not something I particularly dwell on, but the stories out of Beijing this week, describing the air pollution in the Chinese capital, brought back a memory. The story on CNN notes that visibility in Beijing has been cut to under 200 yards. Back in Leeds in December of 1962 the air quality had registered the highest levels of sulfur dioxide in the air that had ever been recorded, as air conditions generat
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SHANGHAI: China's cabinet has issued a timetable for oil companies to deliver cleaner fuel nationwide beginning this year, the Xinhua news agency reported, but the new standards won't become mandatory for four years despite rising public anger over choking air pollution.
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Chinese coal consumption surged for a 12th consecutive year in 2011, with the country burning 2.3 billion tons of the carbon-emitting mineral to run power plants, industrial boilers and other equipment to support its economic and population growth.
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As petrol prices spiral out of control, manufacturers are looking at duel fuel options very seriously.
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The firm’s $1.24bn upgrade of its 45 year old Boundary Dam coal plant will start capturing CO2 in April 2014. It will sell it to an oil company that will inject it into its oil fields to increase their yield. (Reuters)
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There is a clean energy revolution afoot in India. This revolution, mandated by the government, is not about increasing the reliability of the country’s faltering electrical grid -- or providing power to the millions who live without it.
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India will begin talks for a civil nuclear energy cooperation with uranium-rich Australia in March this year.
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