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Forests key to climate fight along with cutting fossil fuels, study suggestsA new scientific study suggests that restoring global forests could sequester 22 times more carbon than the world emits in a year, making t...
Rising seas are the next crisis for the world’s portsPorts cannot easily escape the influence of water. When extreme rains led to flooding in Itajai, Brazil, in 2017, the floodwaters produced ...
Arctic ice melt doesn't boost sea levels, so do we care?The trend line is clear: sea ice extent has diminished 14 percent per decade over that period. The Arctic could see it's first ice-free sum...
Fusion energy startups see renewables leaving a gap in power marketCountries with limited space and poor solar conditions like the UK, as well as places with rapidly expanding power grids like India are ide...
- How to slow climate change with a fake volcano
The idea is to mimic Pinatubo by using a fleet of modified business jets to inject fine droplets of sulfuric acid into the stratosphere, wh...
NASA airborne campaigns to tackle questions on climateThese studies into several incompletely understood Earth system processes were competitively-selected as part of NASA's Earth Venture-class...
PM pitches for subsidy to energize clean energyPM Manmohan Singh on Wednesday pitched for subsidizing clean energy to overcome financing problems, even as he blamed rich economies for th...
- Clean energy programmes not moving fast enough: US Energy Secy
With energy produced being "as dirty as it was 20 years ago", the US today said the progress on clean energy was not fast enough.
- CEM will not undermine UN initiative on climate change: Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Allaying apprehensions that 4th CEM will weaken Kyoto protocol, Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the initiative will not undermine UN initiative...
India to host 4th Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in AprilPM will inaugurate the 4th CEM)meeting on April 17 which among other things would assess the steps being undertaken by various countries to...
India should seek strategic partnership to develop an environment-friendly sources of technologyWith scarcity of natural resources, India has been reluctant to commit to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, though developed economie...
FDI in retail will not only hurt kiranas, infrastructure ; farmers too won’t gainWal-Mart and others are not going to build new rural infrastructure through a 50% commitment towards back-end investment.
- Obama gives PM a peek into Af-Pak policy
Barack Obama briefed PM Manmohan Singh about his Af-Pak policy.
- Planet too warm? Bury the CO2
Japan is the latest country to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it in deep geo logical formations, oceans or as m...
- China must open up to end global crisis: US commerce secretary
US Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said China could play a pivotal role in bringing an end to the global economic crisis by further openin...
- World wants stable oil prices: US Energy Secretary
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Saturday that the world wants oil prices to remain stable, warning that a new spike could harm the e...
- Obama calls for carbon cap legislation
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to draft legislation setting market-based caps on carbon gases in a bid to combat globa...