AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuelsAI-driven data center expansion is derailing Big Tech’s climate goals. Despite record renewable purchases, emissions at companies like Goog...
27 Mar, 2026, 09.32 PM IST
Orbital Refueling: The Missing Link to Mars Finally Arrives in 2026A major hurdle for Mars missions, propellant mass, is being overcome by orbital refueling. A large-scale cryogenic transfer demonstration i...
27 Feb, 2026, 03.39 PM IST
Greenhushing is (Whisper It) coming for carbon removalThis 'greenhushing' is happening to avoid criticism from climate skeptics. Carbon removal projects are now highlighting benefits beyond jus...
11 Oct, 2025, 11.56 AM IST
$50 million prize funded by Musk foundation goes to Indian carbon-capture companyMati Carbon, an Indian company, has won a $50 million XPRIZE for its innovative method of spreading crushed rock on fields to capture atmos...
23 Apr, 2025, 05.51 PM IST
Powering a greener future: How modern biogas technology cuts emissions and creates valueModern biogas technology significantly reduces methane emissions, offers clean energy, and promotes biofertilizer use. This helps lower rel...
23 Feb, 2025, 05.05 PM IST
Coal likely to remain backbone of country's energy system for next two decades: Eco SurveyThe Economic Survey 2023-24 highlights coal's continued dominance in India's energy system for the next two decades, with phase-down depend...
22 Jul, 2024, 01.52 PM IST
New COP28 draft text does not mention phase out of fossil fuelsThe relevant section of the text said that parties recognize "the need for deep, rapid and sustained reductions in GHG (greenhouse gases) e...
11 Dec, 2023, 07.09 PM IST
From India to Argentina, the money food badly needs for climate fight is rolling inThe last three decades saw $3.8 trillion of crops and livestock production lost due to disasters including floods and droughts.
11 Dec, 2023, 11.14 AM IST
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: Robots to check on mental well-being of trapped workers"I am here for the mental well-being of the 41 workers stuck in the Silkyara tunnel. This is a homegrown indigenous technology. Now the rob...
28 Nov, 2023, 11.49 AM IST
Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the airThe idea for the carbon removal process, which Graphyte calls “carbon casting,” was first conceived by BEV partner Chris Rivest.
20 Nov, 2023, 09.47 AM IST
Rolls Royce, EDF among winners of UK greenhouse gas removal tech fundingBritain has said greenhouse gas removal technology will be essential to help it meet its climate target of net zero emissions by 2050, but ...
09 Jul, 2022, 10.43 AM IST
Why India should announce a target of net zero emissions by 2060The world is already warmer than pre-industrial levels by 1.09° C and witness to the damage warming can cause. Heatwaves, forest fires, fie...
27 Oct, 2021, 04.20 PM IST
Transforming methane gas to meat equivalent. String Bio is making it possibleYour source of protein in the future may not be from the meat you eat, but from one of the most potent greenhouse gases. With five patents ...
03 Jan, 2020, 11.00 AM IST
IIT Kharagpur researchers develop process to manage wet municipal solid wasteThe process novelty lies in the use of water for the reaction thus the moisture in the MSW gets used during the recycling process.
31 Jul, 2019, 04.19 PM IST
- New catalyst developed to recycle CO2, methane
London, Nov 18 (IANS) Researchers have developed a new and cost-effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change ...
18 Nov, 2017, 03.52 PM IST
New way to turn waste CO2 into road-ready diesel fuelThe benefits are two-fold, researchers said. The process removes harmful CO2 from the atmosphere and the diesel can be used as an alternati...
22 Nov, 2016, 06.11 PM IST
Teri suggests discontinuance of focus on shale gasTeri suggests discontinuation of efforts for shale gas extraction. Focus should instead be on removing bottlenecks in CBM exploration and p...
11 Jul, 2013, 06.29 PM IST