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 …
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To spread awareness about environmental issues, Greenpeace India has set up a stall at the CII Fair being held at Parade Ground in Sector 17. The group is also enlisting volunteers to creating awareness about deforestation, industrial pollution and climate change. The campaign also includes educating people about increasing the …
European leaders handed concessions to heavy industry and former communist nations on Thursday to smooth the path to a December agreement on fighting climate change amid economic turmoil. At a two-day summit overshadowed by tumbling stockmarkets and the threat of a punishing recession, leaders stuck to a tough December deadline …
TO MINE OR NOT: The Supreme Court of India has asked the Madhya Pradesh government to explain why the mining activity in the state should not be restrained. Petitioner Ajay Dubey, secretary of Prayatna, a Bhopal-based NGO, pointed out that a number of mining leases were functioning illegally across the …
Stocks of Alaska pollock, a staple of the US fast food industry, have shrunk 50 percent from last year to record low levels and put the world's largest food fishery on the brink of collapse, environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday. Taina Honkalehto, a research fishery biologist with the US …
NEW DELHI: India's raucous democracy, endemic poverty and soaring economic ambition make curbs on greenhouse gas emissions a hard sell, even as global pressure mounts on the government to do more on climate change. New Delhi says its priority must be economic growth to lift millions out of poverty, while …
Britain's new minister for energy and climate change must balance efforts to combat global warming against the country's energy security needs, environment and business groups said on Friday. They cautiously welcomed Prime Minister Gordon Brown's move to create the ministry under one of his staunchest allies. Ed Miliband, whose brother …
DH News Service, Bangalore: In the latest Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, Nokia bounced back to the first position in the ninth international edition as well as topped the fourth Indian edition amongst the MNCs here. Which are the brands close to going green? Do they have in place a …
Burning coal is the dirtiest, most old-fashioned way to produce electricity in the energy industry today. However, in the coming years many governments and energy companies are hoping to reinvent coal as a cleaner, more modern form of energy in the coming years, as they try to reconcile energy security …
the Supreme Court on August 12 issued notice to the Centre on an application seeking a moratorium on allowing the cultivation of any genetically modified (gm) crop in the country. Hearing a pil filed by Aruna Rodrigues, P V Satheesh, Devinder Sharma and Rajeev Baruah in 2005, the court stated …
Mumbai, August 26 NGO says Tata's project to develop Dhamra port on Orrisa coast will affect breeding of Olive Ridley turtles The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed environment NGO Greenpeace to hold silent and peaceful demonstration near the venue of Tata Steel's Annual General Meeting in the city on …
Rahi Gaikwad Dhamra project in Orissa a threat to environment, says Greenpace Environmentalists' concern: Greenpeace activists stage a sit-in outside the Tata Group headquarters in Mumbai on Wednesday in protest against the company's upcoming port at Dhamra in Orissa. Greenpeace has been campaigning against the port which, it says, is …
India unveils strategy to counter climate change INDIA released its much-anticipated action plan to mitigate and adapt to climate change on June 30, almost a year after it was announced. Coming a week ahead of the G-8 summit, the plan was welcomed by both industry and environment groups, though not …
Greenpeace has found a new campaign method. Recently, the environmental action group posed as a pro-coal organization to co-sponsor the 2008 McCloskey Coal usa conference, where it delivered an anti-coal message. Disguising its identity under the moniker Institute for Energy Solution, Greenpeace paid the us $8,500 co-sponsorship fee that made …
Bindu Shajan Perappadan NEW DELHI: Greenpeace on Tuesday launched a campaign demanding mandatory fuel efficiency for the car industry in India and organised a demonstration at Connaught Place here to send out a reminder that increasing carbon dioxide emissions were contributing to climate change. As part of the campaign, Greenpeace …
GLOBAL environmental NGO Greenpeace has called the recently released National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) as an important first step but whose efficacy will be determined by the details of the mission documents to be finalised by the end of this year. In a press conference held by Greenpeace, K …
M R Vishnu Prasad, 27, P Neena, 23, and C Shanuga, 22, stand on M G Road in Kochi on a Tuesday morning wearing green jackets with the word, "Greenpeace' written in white. They have booklets and green-coloured petitions which contain an appeal to coastal MPs to raise the point …
