To save the planet, first save elephants
Wiping out all of Africa’s elephants could accelerate Earth’s climate crisis by allowing 7% more damaging greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But conserving forest elephants may reverse
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Impacts of improved biomass cookstoves on child and adult health: experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia
This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia. After near complete stove adoption during an initial one-year randomized controlled
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Do improved biomass cookstoves reduce PM2.5 concentrations? if so, for whom? empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia
Improved biomass cookstoves have been promoted as important intermediate technologies to reduce fuelwood consumption and possibly cut household air pollution in low-income countries. This study uses a
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Vibrio sp. dhg as a platform for the biorefinery of brown macroalgae
<p>Although brown macroalgae holds potential as an alternative feedstock, its utilization by conventional microbial platforms has been limited due to the inability to metabolize one of the principal sugars,
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Examining wood-energy systems with integrated assessment and landscape models
This paper explores how to combine models to better understand the interactions between energy, economy, and land use in regions that rely on woodfuels. Fuelwood and charcoal are critical sources of energy
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India needs to double its installed power-generation capacity: official
The country’s goal of ensuring 24x7 electricity supply for all in the country will require doubling the installed power generation capacity of the country. “Meeting the country’s demand for 24x7 reliable
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How rural India can be made to switch to eco-friendly electric stoves
Upgrading the supply chains and price rebates were found to double purchases of cleaner cooking stoves according to the study People in rural India are more likely to switch to improved cookstoves
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Renewable energy of T.N. over 17% of total power production
Production has been subdued in Tamil Nadu compared to other southern States Renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass and small hydropower) generation in Tamil Nadu was 16,223 million units in April 2018-February
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Off-grid rural electrification options using crop and woody residues in Côte d’Ivoire
Off-grid rural electrification options using crop and woody residues in Côte d’Ivoire show that if all crop and forest residues estimated as available could be used, an estimated 2 million people could
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Improved charcoal technologies and briquette production from woody residues in Malawi
In a country that relies heavily on charcoal for energy, this case study provides evidence that medium-large scale briquette technology in Malawi could be a potential local enterprise but that policy incentives