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 …
Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss, who has a point of view on issues ranging from increasing cell phone use to junk food to smoking and drinking, has been approached by environmental and health activists to lend support in their campaign against controversial genetically modified (GM) food in India. Environmental group Greenpeace …
Wallace S. Broecker One of the world's leading climate scientists challenges Greenpeace's opposition to storing CO2in the depth of the oceans. Most of us who are concerned about global warming agree that an important part of any strategy designed to stem the ongoing build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere …
Italy should keep its ban on nuclear power and should boost solar and wind energy instead to resolve its energy supply problems, Italian environmentalists said on Thursday as nuclear revival debate heated up. Italy banned nuclear power in a 1987 referendum after the Chernobyl disaster. But calls for a nuclear …
Environmental group Greenpeace staged a high-seas protest against a Spanish-owned tuna fishing ship in the South Pacific on Tuesday, dropping a 25 metre (75 feet) floating banner "No Fish, No Future" into its net. Greenpeace ship Esperanza had been tailing the Albatun Ters for five days, claiming it is the …
The Dhamra Port project (Orissa), a 50:50joint venture (JV) between Larsen and Tourbo (L&T;) and Tata Steel, has completed its first phase of construction and will be complete-lyoperationalby2010. Santosh Mohapatra, CEO, Dhamra Por tCompany,said at a media briefing here, "The port, whose project cost is estimated to be around Rs2,463 …
We have heard all about Al Gore's inconvenient truths on climate change. Now comes an extremely convenient truth from his German counterpart. Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who has been dubbed more revolutionary than Greenpeace, says the great unspoken truth is how painless it will be to convert the world …
Greenpeace says the world's most popular electronic game consoles contain high levels of toxic chemicals, though they do not pose an immediate danger to gamers. A report by the environmental watchdog group says Nintendo's Wii, the Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 use varying degrees of bromine, PVCs and …
Activists agitating for the relocation of the Tata Group's Dhamra project to save the Olive Ridley turtles It was a sight to behold at the seafront near Mumbai Port Trust garden, opposite Bakhtawar building at Colaba. Volunteers from Greenpeace lit thousands of candles there, in a bid to attract the …
Private security company Beckett Brown International (bbi) spied on Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and other big environmental organizations in the late 1990s according to documents obtained by the us magazine Mother Jones. The documents showed that bbi operatives snooped through garbage, collected phone records and tried to infiltrate groups …
For the average Indian, Tata stands for ethics, responsibility and environmental consciousness. As a corporate, Tata Steel boasts of a stringent code of environmental conduct. However, there are paradoxes galore in Tata's social and environmental record, including its ventures in Kalinga Nagar, Singur, Sukhinda, Mithapur and Bhopal. The port at …
Singer Rabbi today joined the Greenpeace activists for highlighting the urgency of creating a National Climate Action plan (NCAP) that focuses on preventing climate change. Rabbi said, "Everything we do can either hurt or save climate and our future depends on the choices we make. One cannot afford to watch …
It was supposed to prevent blindness and death from vitamin A deficiency in millions of children. But almost a decade after its invention, golden rice is still stuck in the lab.
Brussels Blog (Andrew Bounds): There has been much talk of the Franco-German motor that has traditionally propelled the European Union breaking down recently. So the cancellation of a meeting recently between the two countries to discuss proposals to cut pollution from cars led to plenty of puns. The German press …
Amidst protests, queen Elizabeth ii officially opened Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5 on March 14. The Queen, who had opened first passenger terminal at Heathrow in 1955, described it as "a 21st century gateway to Britain'. The
on april 23, the Delhi High Court will hear a case that is being dubbed as a "conflict between commercial interests and public health'. There are two main players: the Central Information Commission (cic) and the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Corporation Company (mahyco). Fearing that its data on field trials of …
February 2006: Divya Raghunandan of Greenpeace files RTI application with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), seeking data on gm plants March 2006: DBT gives information on trial sites; says rest of the data is confidential and proprietary and cannot be shared April 2006: Raghunandan goes to DBT's Appellate Authority for help …
Greenpeace Warns On Canada's Northern Forests CANADA: April 11, 2008 VANCOUVER - Greenpeace warned on Thursday that Canada's logging practices threaten to turn the country's vast northern forest into a source of global warming, but the forestry industry says it is already taking steps to fight climate change. Logging and …
Canada Logging May Ignite 'Carbon Bomb' - Greenpeace CANADA: April 11, 2008 VANCOUVER - Canada threatens to ignite a "carbon bomb" that could drastically worsen global warming if it continues heavy logging in areas of its vast northern forest, Greenpeace warned in a report on Thursday. Logging and other developments …
German Soy Fuel Blend Fails Climate Test - Greenpeace GERMANY: April 3, 2008 HAMBURG - Germany's policy of blending fossil diesel with biodiesel to combat climate change is failing because 20 percent comes from soyoil produced in countries where deforestation takes place, Greenpeace said on Wednesday. The environmental pressure group …
