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 …
There is no stopping the Bt brinjal trials now. The supreme court on December 10 refused to stay Mahyco's (Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company's) ongoing trials in various parts of the country. Social activists Aruna Rodrigues and P V Satheesh had filed a petition against the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee in …
THE Southern Ocean is usually one of the world's loneliest shipping lanes. This month it has turned into an unseemly battleground over a bid by Australia's government and various environmental groups to stop Japan hunting and slaughtering whales. Japan aims to kill more than 900 minke and 50 fin whales …
december 14, Bali, Indonesia: a much anticipated un meet concludes. The meet was expected to work out a consensus to deal with climate change once the Kyoto Protocol expires. It did come out with an action plan to give direction to a series of meetings over the next two years. …
Environmentalists opened up a new front for climate change, by sending a bogus press release committing bp, Shell and other oil majors to a 90 per cent cut in carbon outputs by 2050 with no strings attached. bp's press office in London denied it would commit itself to a 90 …
There were substantive discussions on climate change at the three-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda. It ended on November 25, however, without agreeing to binding emissions cuts. Leaders from the 53-member bloc of English-speaking nations came up with resolution called the
Greenpeace activists took over the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, the UK, on October 8, in a protest aimed at stopping Prime Minister Gordon Brown from approving the country's first coal plant in over three decades. German energy giant E ON has proposed to build a coal-fired power plant at …
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 …
South African crop scientists have come up with a new genetically modified (gm) maize variety that is resistant to maize streak virus (msv). Field trials of the crop are scheduled to begin soon. The finding was announced on July 8, 2007, at the annual meeting of the American Society of …
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 exercise. After an inspection, producers will have the right to carry Moscow's gm-free label for a year. Greenpeace too welcomed …
A Greenpeace study in St Petersburg, Russia, says 40 per cent of the city's waste is dumped into the Neva river due to shortage of waste treatment facilties. And this has been contaminating fish stock, which is sold in markets. The study found that pollutants from untreated and industrial waste …
A 25-year-long battle in Taiwan between the area's government and indigenous people has culminated with the government agreeing to shut down a nuclear waste dump in Orchid Island by 2016. The island, about 65 km off Taiwan's southeast coast, is home to indigenous communities and has long been used to …
A Greenpeace report on May 18 accused oil major ExxonMobil of aiding research against the impacts of climate change. "ExxonMobil is still giving grants to research organisations that question the science of climate change,' says the report. The company gave about us $23 million to such groups from 1998 to …
The apex court nod to GM seed trials raises issues. GM seeds: Trial's not yet over Globally, the market for genetically modified (GM) seeds is estimated at Rs 25,215 crore. In India, where such seeds are seen with suspicion, it's barely worth Rs 697 crore a year, according to industry …
The Central Information Commission has directed the department of biotechnology (dbt) to make public data of tests on genetically modified (gm) crops. The directive came on April 13, 2007, in response to a petition filed by Greenpeace activist Divya Raghunandan in February 2006, after dbt refused to divulge information on …
This study is concerned with the Dhamra port site in Bhadrak district, near the mouth of the Dhamra river, and surrounding areas. The proposed port site is a unique habitat in that it has long stretches of inter-tidal mudflats from the site up till the river mouth. The inter-tidal zone …
On March 28, Greenpeace activists beamed huge slides on to the cooling tower of the National Thermal Power Corporation Plant at Dadri, to spread a message on climate change. "Stop Climate Change-Energy (r)evolution now!', read the slides. The giant coal-based power plant is located in Uttar Pradesh's Gautambudhnagar. It uses …
