Electricity consumption from the manufacture of artificial intelligence (AI) chips has soared by more than 350 percent worldwide between 2023 and 2024, according to new research from Greenpeace East Asia. In East Asia, the global hub for AI semiconductor production, growing electricity demand from AI chipmaking has been met primarily …
Overtakes HP to top in the guide for 2012 Wipro, the Bangalore-based company with interests in consumer goods, electronics hardware and IT services among others, has topped the 'Guide to Greener Electronics’ list for 2012 released by global non-governmental environmental organisation Greenpeace. The company, which previously participated in the Indian …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has given global suppliers five years to comply with its environmental rules or risk being pushed off U.S. shelves at the world's largest retailer, expanding a sustainability campaign launched in 2009. The new requirements, announced in China where Wal-Mart has more than 20,000 suppliers, will compel workshops …
Fines issued for only seven of 4,123 oil spills since 2000, with no company having to pay more than £20,000 Oil companies operating in the North Sea have been fined for oil spills on just seven occasions since 2000, even though 4,123 separate spills were recorded over the same period, …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday pledged $50 million to strengthen institutional mechanism for biodiversity conservation in the country. He made the announcement while launching the high-level segment of the 11th Conference of Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad. Stressing on the role played by …
Greenpeace on Sunday demanded that the Indian government re-look at its massive expansion of coal mining in forest areas. It also demanded a moratorium on new coal mines. The demands came with the 11th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, beginning on Monday. The …
The European Union’s energy chief may have declared that the bloc’s 143 nuclear power stations are “satisfactory” but a report on the state of each of those nuclear reactors has pointed to hundreds of problems was presented to EU three days ago in Brussels. The report suggests that the problems …
Part 3 of Brikesh Singh's journey into Junglistan. In this episode, Brikesh interacts with the forest dwellers of Mahan Forest and understands first hand from them how they are dependent on the forests for their well-being and livelihood. Extensive Coal mining has adversely affected the forests. Now the coal mining …
Brikesh Singh on his journey into Junglistan. Coal mining has affected the forests including the tribal communities, and our national animal, the tiger, and also other living beings dependent on our forests. Now the coal mining companies have their eyes on some of India's most bio-diverse forests in Central and …
The financial costs associated with coal-fired electricity generation are set to rise given the need to increase coal import, according to a study report of Equatorials. The study on coal fuel supply agreements by Coal India Ltd and recent developments commissioned by Greenpeace bring to the fore how the costs …
The environmental activists are up in arms at the fuel consumption of the new Golf, claiming it isn't good enough. Protesters gatecrashed the Golf launch as part of a continuing campaign against the German maker. Last year, they produced their own Star Wars advertisement that claimed that VW had gone …
David Cameron yesterday reassured opponents to a third runway at Heathrow that he would honour his manifesto not to expand it before the end of the current parliament. However, amid increasing speculation that the Government is preparing for a controversial U-turn, it has emerged that a cross-party commission will be …
The fight against global warming should move to the top of the world’s political agenda and the European Union has to lead the shift to climate-friendly policies, Denmark’s Climate Minister Martin Lidegaard said. “Climate change is not only an environmental time-bomb, it is a serious threat to our economies and …
Greenpeace India's `Save Junglistan' online campaign to save the forests and stop coal mining has received over 50,000 signatures on the petition. Greenpeace India says in a statement that there was a need for one lakh signatures by October, 2012. India is hosting XI Conference of Parties to the Convention …
New Delhi Telecom firms will make annual energy savings of as much as R10,000 crore over the next eight years if they adopt the Centre’s green telecom directive and phase out diesel consumption by 2020, a report released by an international NGO said on Tuesday. According to the green directive, …
A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how coal mining in Central India destroys forests, forest dependent communities, endangered tigers and other wildlife. Of course, …
A cruel joke has been played out at the expense of the Bhopal victims of the world’s worst industrial disaster. The Supreme Court had ordered the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to file a report on the status of the ground water contamination at the Union Carbide plant site in …
Coal mining is one of the biggest threats to habitats of the big cats in the country. With a large quantity of our electricity generation powered by coal, the only solution is to promote clean fuel technology and reduce dependence on coal for the ever-rising power needs Since the interim …
Plan to expand coal mines and power plants in China's arid provinces threatens to drain water supply, report shows China's plan to rapidly expand large coal mines and power plants in its arid northern and western provinces threatens to drain precious water supply and could trigger a severe water crisis, …
New Delhi Scientists, farmer bodies and industry associations alike have slammed the parliamentary panel on agriculture for suggesting a probe into the go-ahead for commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal, India's first genetically-modified food crop. They have also criticised its recommendation for a ban on the field trials of such crops,terming …
Environmentalists have called for stopping all field trials of genetically (GM) modified crops and a wider public debate on the issue. They welcomed the 492-page report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, headed by CPI(M) member Basudeb Acharia which raised a red flag on GM crops. The 31-member panel …
