Stubble burning by farmers in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab leads to massive increase in air pollution across North India, and has beco...

SAEL intends to construct 3.5 gigawatts of green energy capacity as part of a five-year plan. It will add 100 megawatts of new biomass and ...

In a crusade against stubble burning, the district administration here has adopted a double-prong attack to counter the menace by adopting ...

Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav made these remarks in his intervention during a discussion on the iss...

While many contact-promoting activities have been halted, neither Opposition parties nor supposed intellectuals are calling for a halt to a...

Pusa bio-decomposer is a solution developed by the scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, which can turn crop resi...

Scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, PUSA, have found a low-cost, simple and effective way to deal with the problem of...

Chandrashekhar Bhadsavle from Neral in Mumbai has developed a direct sowing technique called Saguna Rice Technology (SRT), which eliminates...

Each year India’s rice farmers burn the stubble of the harvested paddy crop, contributing to the annual haze.

Chhattisgarh government has offered the Centre a solution to the problem of stubble burning in fields—set up ethanol or biofuel units using...

"We should stop blaming farmers since it will take us nowhere. Instead we should propose methods which are economically and ecologically de...

Between May 3 and May 23, for which data is available, there were 17 incidents of fire near railway tracks, mostly along the stretch betwee...

This is the season when the farmers of Punjab and northern Haryana resort to massive burning of rice stubble to quickly get their fields re...

The situation was so bad late last year that the Capital was referred to as a gas chamber by health experts, forcing authorities to declare...

While domestic oil marketing companies, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Indian Oil Corporation Limited, are setting up bio-etha...

Had the Delhi’s neighbouring states adhered to the guidelines of the two-year-old national policy for management of crop residue (NPMCR), t...

"The solution lies in finding profitable ways to use the rice stubble. Of these, the most intriguing is the conversion of stubble into goat...