Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
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Brazil for home milk
BRAZIL is getting too smart for the European Community. It has imposed import duties on EC milk products saying the enormous European subsidy to farmers makes its home products uncompetitive. The EC
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Raping the forest for ephemeral fashions
Forest products have become a fad in industrialised countries and are used to make a wide range of things, from ice creams to shampoos. For the Amazon tribals, however, this outpouring of wealth has ravished their cultural identity in crassly commercial m
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Amazon project: fight over funds, sovereignty and forests
IT is two years since western governments, in a fit of enthusiasm for green issues, proposed a US $1.5 billion "pilot project" to find ways to protect the world's rainforests. Meeting in
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A place in the sun
The UN sponsored discussions to prepare a global convention on climate began in February in USA. The aim is to prepare a legally binding convention to curb gaseous emissions leading to a much feared climate
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BRAZIL
Conservationists in Brazil have got some success in their struggle for saving a precious tract of rainforests. The Brazilian government has decided to launch an environmental impact study for a
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Gee, we're Green!
Much to the worry of environmentalists, India is on the way to becoming the third largest carbon emitter by 2015. But there is some good news, too. Indian and Brazilian consumers are the most eco-friendly in the world, says a recent study.
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Technical potentials of biomass for energy services from current agriculture and forestry in selected countries in Europe, The Americas and Asia
<p>This report is a survey on the technical potential of biomass from current agriculture and forestry in the regions; Europe incl. Russia and Ukraine, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, China and India. The report provides projections for agricultural residue production assuming availability of fertilizers, plant protection and mechanization.
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The global water situation
Water is not distributed evenly over the globe. Fewer than 10 countries possess 60% of the world's available fresh water supply: Brazil, Russia, China, Canada, Indonesia, U.S., India, Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, local variations within countries can be highly significant. Less than 3% of the world's water is fresh - the rest is seawater and undrinkable.
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Bytes
calling trouble: As per a study of Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet, 10 or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma, a tumour on the auditory nerve. no more
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BRAZIL
The Brazilian government has decided against installing a new nuclear reactor at its Angra dos Reis nuclear complex. Instal lation of the reactor was part of the government's plan to expand its