Cairn Oil & Gas powers Assam’s tea industry with clean energy shiftCairn Oil & Gas is supplying clean natural gas to tea estates in Upper Assam, aiding the state's crucial tea industry. This initiative, in ...
24 Jun, 2025, 09.07 PM IST
Study finds big gap in Australia's methane emissionsAustralian coal mines may have vastly underestimated historical methane emissions, according to analysis of the potent greenhouse gas publi...
16 Apr, 2025, 06.38 PM IST
Ozone-depleting CFCs hit record despite ban: StudyTheir power to dissolve the ozone layer shielding Earth from the Sun prompted a worldwide ban, but scientists on Monday revealed that some ...
04 Apr, 2023, 09.22 AM IST
Climate Change: Bill Gates to invest in startup that aims to reduce methane emissions from cow burpsRumin8, an Australian startup, is developing a dietary supplement that inhibits methane production by using red seaweed as a source of synt...
24 Jan, 2023, 08.53 PM IST
Climate: offshore methane gas leak spotted from spaceThe findings add a crucial tool to an expanding space-based arsenal for pinpointing previously invisible methane plumes from the oil and ga...
12 Jun, 2022, 06.21 PM IST
Coal Must Be Used But Use Clean TechWhile India has got the COP26 climate summit to accept phasing down rather than phasing out coal, India's attempt should be to over-deliver...
15 Nov, 2021, 11.50 PM IST
Energy independence by 2047 achievableIn this regard, the PM’s aspiration to make India a global hub of green hydrogen (whose production entails no greenhouse gas emissions) was...
15 Aug, 2021, 10.56 PM IST
What is the science behind the moo-ve from cattle methane emissions?Scientists have worked for years to reduce methane emissions from cattle burps by changing what cattle eat, or through research on vaccines...
18 Sep, 2020, 04.10 PM IST
Nuclear power can play a major role in fast-tracking decarbonisationA report titled United in Science concluded that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions need to increase by between three and five times to limit...
27 Sep, 2019, 08.03 PM IST
Mars terraforming not possible with current technologiesScience fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, ...
31 Jul, 2018, 01.19 PM IST
- Marine reserves may mitigate climate change impact
London, June 6 (IANS) Highly protected marine reserves can help mitigate sea-level rise, ocean acidification and other major impacts of cli...
06 Jun, 2017, 01.45 PM IST
- Most of Mars' atmosphere was lost to space: NASA
Washington, March 31 (IANS) Solar wind and radiation were responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet...
31 Mar, 2017, 11.05 AM IST
South Pole CO2 levels cross 400 ppm first time in 4 million yearsLast year was the fourth consecutive year that CO2 grew more than 2 ppm - which set another record. This year promises to be the fifth.
19 Jun, 2016, 02.12 PM IST
Climate-damaging greenhouse gases reached new record high in 2013The shocking disclosure is part of the WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, released in Geneva.
09 Sep, 2014, 07.22 PM IST
Giving up beef will be more beneficial to planet than driving carsCattle require on average 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water are responsible for releasing five times more greenhouse ga...
22 Jul, 2014, 05.08 PM IST
New technique to produce 'green' steelMIT researchers have found a new method through which steel making can be made completely 'green' and carbon-free.
09 May, 2013, 03.59 PM IST
- Natural gas cleanest, least harmful fossil fuel
Domestically abundant, natural gas is perceived as a secure source of energy, besides offering a host of environmental benefits over other ...
31 Dec, 2012, 03.53 PM IST