Scientists warn over new forever acid in rain: All you need to know about itGlobal rainfall is increasingly contaminated with trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a persistent chemical raising concerns among scientists and r...
29 Jul, 2025, 07.05 AM IST
Dutch say Tata Steel coke plant must clean up or face closureDutch regulators have threatened Tata Steel Netherlands with substantial fines and potential closure of a coke plant in IJmuiden. The compa...
20 Dec, 2024, 06.50 PM IST
Tata Steel's Dutch plant gets year to clean up coke ovenDutch regulators have threatened to shut down a key coke oven at Tata Steel's IJmuiden plant within a year if pollution isn't curbed. Tata ...
19 Dec, 2024, 07.12 PM IST
Dutch may pay as much as €3 billion to clean up Tata Steel plantThe Netherlands is considering contributing up to €3 billion for the eco-friendly renovation of Tata Steel Ltd.'s IJmuiden factory, address...
05 Jun, 2024, 03.06 PM IST
India wary of EU proposal on labour and green violationsAfter the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the European Union's deforestation law, India is keeping an eye on a proposed legis...
28 Jun, 2023, 12.13 AM IST
FIFA made false claims about carbon neutrality at Qatar World Cup - regulatorFIFA, soccer's world governing body, was found to have made false and misleading statements regarding the reduced environmental impact of t...
07 Jun, 2023, 06.09 PM IST
Can UN aviation body punish Russia for MH17 downing?The ICAO does have provisions for settling disputes between member countries under article 84 of the convention. This is where the Australi...
16 Mar, 2022, 12.20 PM IST
Elon Musk's Bitcoin turnaround pleases some Tesla investorsThe Tesla boss' tweets, which had helped drive some of the gains in bitcoin in recent months, this week triggered a 17% slide in the value ...
15 May, 2021, 09.26 AM IST
EU considering further legal action in Brexit standoffThe fight over the government's proposed bill continued Tuesday as the two sides were deep in negotiations on a free trade agreement.
03 Nov, 2020, 07.43 PM IST
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating coal’s demiseIn much of the world coal power is currently more expensive than gas and renewables, which explains why its share in the electricity mix ha...
29 Apr, 2020, 08.07 AM IST
Focused on improving Indo-Dutch trade relations: Sigrid Kaag, Netherlands MinisterNetherlands' minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Sigrid Kaag talks to ET about her country's plans for leveraging Indo-Dutch relati...
18 Oct, 2019, 06.38 PM IST
Swadeshi Jagran Manch ticks off Agriculture ministry over 'misleading' reply in Parliament on herbicide GlyphosateThe Manch has reacted strongly to a reply given by the ministry to an unstarred question in Praliament on July 9.
23 Jul, 2019, 10.32 PM IST
ED freezes bank accounts of Greenpeace, linked entity; searches offices in BengaluruThe NGO said in a statement that it strongly denies all allegations against it and that the ED action was "part of a larger design to muzzl...
12 Oct, 2018, 12.02 AM IST
Altering flight routes may cut climate impact by 10 per cent: StudyAviation is different from many other sectors, since its climate impact is largely caused by non-CO2 effects, such as contrails and ozone f...
06 Mar, 2017, 05.49 PM IST
Government refuses entry of Greenpeace activist into IndiaA crisis response campaigner with Greenpeace International was denied entry into India as his name figured in a Home Ministry "black list",...
08 Jun, 2015, 07.27 PM IST
- Turkey signs 'eco-friendly' ship recycling Convention
Turkey, one of the five major ship recycling nations in the world, has signed the United Nations-backed treaty promoting the environmentall...
06 Sep, 2010, 01.58 AM IST
'We are thinking of setting up a single B2G&R window'Anurag Goel, secretary, ministry of corporate affairs, spoke eloquently about the initial steps being taken to make the ambitious programme...
10 Sep, 2008, 03.02 AM IST