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 …
Approval Deferred Due To Insufficient Impact Details Of Its Captive Port At Jatadhari IN A move that could further delay South Korean steel giant Posco
Environmental activist group Greenpeace sued Dow Chemical on Monday, accusing the largest U.S. chemical maker and others of spying on it for three years to disrupt its activities. The lawsuit seeks "compensatory, statutory and punitive damages," although Greenpeace acknowledged it largely wants increased publicity. The environmental group, known for its …
Over the course of 2010 we've seen international climate negotiations stalling. But at the same time we!ve seen many encouraging developments on climate action on a national level. More and more countries are recognising climate change as a real threat. A recent poll, for example, revealed that two thirds of …
The attempt by some non-governmental organisations and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected, says Jagdish Bhagwati INCREASINGLY, corporations are under pressure, often from activist non-governmental organisations, to take on specific corporate social responsibility (CSR) obligations. But the fact that CSR …
While Wipro and HCL have topped in the just released Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics for launching green products, Toshiba and Microsoft lag for failure to keep their promise. The gap between companies that are making progress in weeding our toxic chemicals, improving energy efficiency and enabling consumers to recycle …
Ontario Syncrude, the largest operator of oil sands projects in Canada, was ordered to pay $2.92 million on October 22 for causing the deaths of 1,603 ducks. The company was convicted in June by an Alberta court for failing to deploy scarecrows and loud cannons in April 2008 to prevent …
International environmental NGO, Greenpeace, is in the copyright soup over its campaign to save Olive Ridley Turtles. Greenpeace is against Tata Steel’s building a port at the mouth of the Dhamra river, close to Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary in Orissa. The site is the largest of the three nesting sites of …
Facebook is under pressure to shift to renewable energy. In one of the web’s fastest growing environmental campaigns, Greenpeace International says at least 500,000 people have protested the social networking site’s intention to run its new data centre on coal-generated electric power. The site announced in February this year it …
Into dust Residents of Kriusha village, in the western Russian region of Ryazan, search through the remains of their charred homes Five weeks after wildfires began spreading through forests in central and western parts of the country, Russia is still burning. The worst is over, but as firefighters continue to …
SMART stands firm in its belief that the independent verification exercise clearly demonstrates that the claims made by Greenpeace were exaggerated or wrong. SMART is not guilty of
Civil society must prevent any attempt to clean up Bhopal without establishing Dow's remediation liability and analysing the contamination fully. THE endgame has begun. The present moment, coming after the extraordinarily shoddy Group of Ministers (GoM) report on Bhopal and the Madhya Pradesh government's manoeuvres to hammer a lid on …
Moscow: As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting …
Manisha Pande / New Delhi August 09, 2010, 0:46 IST Do you plan to discard your mobile phone or exchange it for a new one? Then consider this: Old mobile phones constitute 1,700 tonnes of the 50,000 tonnes of e-waste generated in India each year and, according to a UN …
Ronojoy Banerjee New Delhi: Tata Sons has moved the Delhi High Court against leading environmental NGOs Greenpeace India and Greenpeace International following a game that makes direct refrences to the company which are
Prime ministers don’t usually get asked whether they have had their eyes removed. But then, exceptional circumstances call for extreme measures. In a recent postcard campaign featuring a bloodied skull, the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) and its supporters put that question to Manmohan Singh. Why else, they …
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is aware of the recently released Greenpeace report regarding theIndonesian forestry industry. The claims made against Indonesian policy and APP in this reportare unequivocally inaccurate and deliberately misleading. We are disappointed thatGreenpeace continues to publish misleading reports containing false claims and we would like toset …
BHUBANESWAR: The pre-draft CRZ 2010 notified by the Ministry of Environment and Forest is anti-people, anti-environment and pro-industry, alleges international environmental pressure group, Greenpeace, while reacting on behalf of National Coastal Protection Campaign (NCPC). Greenpeace claims that NCPC is a group comprising a broad range of fishworker groups including the …
