Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest challenge by all the nations, government, business and citizens of the globe. The threats of climate change on our green planet
Captures all the sunlight, more efficient at making electricity the oldest piece of space junk still orbiting the Earth is the satellite Vanguard I. In 1958, it became the fourth artificial satellite launched
The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum on Thursday directed Silverline Industries, manufacturers of a solar water heater, to repair a heater. They will, otherwise, be liable to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation. The complainant, Kailash Sharma, had placed an order for a heater with Silverline Industries in 2003. He paid …
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai November 28, 2008, 0:37 IST Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) plans to acquire companies in the non-conventional energy and transmission business to more than double its turnover to Rs 50,000 crore in the next five years. "Our future growth in new identified business areas such as …
The Vatican was set to go green on Wednesday with the activation of a new solar energy system to power several key buildings and a commitment to use renewable energy for 20 percent of its needs by 2020. The massive roof of the Vatican's "Nervi Hall", where popes hold general …
A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. A cemetery in Santa Coloma de Gramenet is now producing enough power for 60 homes. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, …
By DANIEL WOOLLS MADRID Nov. 24: A new kind of silent hero has joined the fight against climate change. Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a gritty, working-class town outside Barcelona, has placed a sea of solar panels atop mausoleums at its cemetery, transforming a place of perpetual rest into one buzzing …
Millions of rural Indians have never experienced how electricity can change their lives. So, their life grinds to a halt as soon as the sun sets. But providing power to the villages would mean more coal-burning by power plants that already emit more than 50 per cent of India
In the context of growing emission of carbon dioxide in coal-based power stations, solar energy promises to be a viable alternative and a clean energy source. Yet, the market for solar energy remains small and uneconomic, confined as the system is to households in remote villages and delinked from the …
Australian mining firms, hit by high fuel costs and falling commodity prices, could soon swap their diesel generators for 24-hour, solar-power systems, the head of a private renewable power firm said on Thursday. Mining firms are also worried about an emissions trading scheme set to begin in Australia in 2010, …
US oil demand has fallen 5 per cent this year - the biggest drop since 1981 - according to new figures which underline changing American attitudes towards energy use. The American Petroleum Institute, the national oil and gas trade organisation, said yesterday all big petroleum products, including petrol, distillate, jet …
By Dhanya Sri As India has got a great potential to tap solar, wind and biomass, hydro power and sea wave power, we should look at these areas to help rural areas. India still has 1,00,000 villages to be electrified out of which 20,000 are considered as remote, for which …
NEW DELHI: Leading wind power equipment maker Suzlon Energy on Monday announced its plans to venture into the solar energy sector. Talking to newsmen on the sidelines of the ongoing India Economic Summit here, Suzlon Energy chairman and Managing Director, Tulsi R. Tanti said this would be in addition to …
We need to move towards a form of sustainable development that is economically sound, socially equitable and environmentally responsible. Solar energy is clearly the way forward, says K Subramanya. FOR many months now, India and the world at large have focused their attention on nuclear energy with the Indo-US civil …
Solar panels installed on the roof of a hotel The West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation is dangling an extra-income option and tax sops before companies to make them generate solar power. For a month from November 15, business establishments with roofs larger than 50,000 sq ft can seek permission …
LONDON (Reuters) - Renewable energy, such as wind, solar and hydropower, will overtake gas to become the second largest source of electricity behind coal by 2015, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. That was under a pessimistic forecast for a global climate response, not taking into account a …
Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner and foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times, built a bonding with book readers and avid students and followers of the international politics with his 2005 bestseller, The World is Flat. He now returns to his audiences with Hot, Flat and Crowded, …
By Naba Bhattacharjee The extensive extraction of fossil fuels has led to total denigration of global environment, both in land and sea. Consequently, fossil fuels like oil and coal are poised for extinction within the next few decades. The escalation in price of crude oil in international market is a …
