Giant leap towards eliminating Indias carbon footprint
For a cause: Participants at the
For a cause: Participants at the
Dao Duy Dang remembers the night in 1963 when the lights came on in Uong Bi. "People were so excited," the 70-year-old tea-shop owner says, recalling the cheers that rang through the northern Vietnamese town after one of the country's first coal-fired power plants began operating. "Their whole lives they had wished for electricity." Be careful what you wish for.
Rules to add costs to fuels that emit the highest levels of carbon dioxide would deny millions of Americans access to stable Canadian energy and add to the nation's security risks, an interest group backed by oil companies said Thursday.
The Finnish energy company TVO has asked the police to investigate whether environmental group Greenpeace had committed a crime by distributing fake electricity bills bearing its name. In the last week of June, Greenpeace activists distributed some 20,000 leaflets resembling electricity bills around Finland in a campaign against a delayed nuclear reactor project in the country. The leaflet warned
Amsterdam: Greenpeace said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world
Greenpeace said activists climbed a cooling tower at a Spanish nuclear power station on Tuesday, and the environmental group called on the regulator to reject the plant's bid to renew its operating permit next month. The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said the 1,000 megawatt Cofrentes plant had declared an emergency alert but was working normally after 14 activists broke through the perimeter fen
In May of 1993 the British medical journal The Lancet published a paper by a Danish researcher that linked a global decline in sperm counts in healthy men over the past 50 years to accumulation of
The pulp and paper industry is the world's second largest consumer of chlorine and the greatest source of toxic organochlorine discharges directly into the waterways. Although dozens of mills across
European agriculture ministers have decided that organic food can be labelled
A campaign against trawlers operating on a factory like scale in the north Pacific has been launched by Greenpeace in the US
A domestic but prolific generator of organochlorines is the homely dry-cleaning business. Over 90 per cent of alndry-'ters use chlorine-based perchloroethylene (perc) to clean clothes. Some 3
The seventh biennial issue of the
The US Environmental Protection Agency is likely to cut down or ban the production of chlorine and compounds containing it. However, many scientists believe that even were manufacture of
Why the French pollution tax is unlikely to produce results
Paper companies: 55 mills now produce totally chlorine free, high-quality bleached pulp. Province of Ontario: Pulp mills must eliminate organachlorine discharges by 2002. British Columbia:
The Bay of Biscay was turned into a battleground as Spanish fishermen snipped the nets of 3 Cornish boats in the first week of August, claiming that they exceeded the European Community length limits
Unilever shuts down its mercury concentration camp in Kodaikanal
The Earth's atmosphere has been evolving ever since the planet was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. But, with industrialisation, human activity, for the first time, threatens irreversible climate changes
Moscow recently announced that all genetically modified (gm) food in the city will now have a city-wide label. Ecologists welcomed the move while producers called it a complex and expensive
Geological records of how climate responded to changes in the atmosphere in the past enables scientists to model future climate behaviour in response to current atmospheric changes