'Huge potential, not fully tapped yet': Indian envoy highlights India-Norway cooperation ahead of PM Modi visitIndia and Norway are poised for enhanced cooperation across maritime, green technology, space, and healthcare sectors, according to Ambassa...
17 May, 2026, 11.05 AM IST
EFTA investments begin flowing into India; Iceland pours $30 million into Maharashtra firmInvestments from the European bloc EFTA are now entering India. An Icelandic company has invested $30 million in Maharashtra. This follows ...
07 Mar, 2026, 01.00 AM IST
Ocean dumping - or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbonPlanetary Technologies in Nova Scotia uses magnesium oxide to reduce carbon dioxide via the ocean, backed by $1 million from Elon Musk's fo...
22 Mar, 2025, 12.32 AM IST
What it would take to get me to fly for fun againWith limited potential for sustainable aviation fuel and electric planes, capturing and storing carbon dioxide is essential to mitigate the...
28 Dec, 2024, 10.21 AM IST
The new climate gold rush: Scrubbing carbon from the skyThis summer, Bill Gates met with top investors to discuss funding companies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These businesse...
24 Dec, 2024, 05.11 PM IST
The world’s biggest carbon removal plant comes online in IcelandThe carbon removal plant coming up in Iceland is expected to be a major step in the race to remove billions of tons of carbon each year by ...
09 May, 2024, 10.01 AM IST
Can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis?As the risks became clearer, political and corporate leaders pledged to keep global average temperatures to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsiu...
02 Apr, 2024, 09.56 AM IST
Why carbon capture is no easy solution to climate changeAt present, there are 42 operational commercial CCS and CCUS projects globally with the capacity to store 49 million metric tons of carbon ...
23 Nov, 2023, 09.56 AM IST
Your Iceland holiday is about to get more expensive, all thanks to a new tourism taxIceland, known as the "land of fire and ice," attracts travelers with its unique geological features, including lava flows, hot springs, ge...
29 Sep, 2023, 05.21 PM IST
Removing carbon from the air enters its awkward teen yearsThe world’s first plant that pulls carbon dioxide from the air and turns it into stone has been operating in Iceland for about two years no...
13 Jun, 2023, 09.57 AM IST
US okays $3.5 billion to capture & store CO2. What's direct air capture, how does this cutting-edge tech work?The U.S. government has offered $3.5 billion in grants to companies that will capture and permanently store the gas using a process known a...
20 Apr, 2023, 09.48 AM IST
Climate: Removing CO2 from the air no longer optionalEven scientists sceptical about its feasibility agree that without carbon dioxide removal (CDR) -- aka "negative emission" -- it will be ve...
19 Oct, 2021, 09.59 AM IST
View: At COP 26, India should demand that rich countries remove CO2 from the atmospherehe Paris Agreement’s goal is to restrict temperature rises to below 2° C, preferably below 1.5° C. This seems virtually impossible to achie...
12 Oct, 2021, 11.33 PM IST
Do tourist boats stress out whales? Scientists find outResearchers are studying the whales' stress levels in their hormones.
06 Sep, 2021, 09.10 AM IST
What if we could suck CO2 out of air and pack it awayIf only combating global warming were as simple as collecting the CO2 in the air and burying it forever. But a European company thinks that...
01 Mar, 2019, 09.30 AM IST
Some of the most memorable and interesting developments in scienceThe discovery was made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a pair of precise instruments in the states of Wa...
30 Dec, 2016, 01.53 AM IST
The CO2 in our atmosphere can now be transformed into a building materialThey even note that they tried out the "one pot" approach using power harvested from photovoltaics to heat the molten lithium carbonate.
20 Aug, 2015, 01.03 PM IST