The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
Can a heterotrophic organism be evolved to synthesize biomass from CO2 directly? So far, non-native carbon fixation in which biomass precursors are synthesized solely from CO2 has remained an elusive grand challenge. Here, we demonstrate how a combination of rational metabolic rewiring, recombinant expression, and laboratory evolution has led to …
An estimated 6.5 million pre mature deaths in the world are linked to air pollution every year with more than half of them being reported from China and India together. India alone contributes 1.59 million deaths to this dismal statistic. The global number will increase significantly, touching 7.5 million in …
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is pleased to publish the 3rd Global Bioenergy Statistics report. The report shows that bioenergy is growing at a steady pace. In the year 2013, global biomass supply increased to 57.7 EJ accounting for 10% of the global energy supply. In terms of final energy …
There is a huge potential for yield increase of agricultural crop residues and biomass from forestry in the European Union, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. A stepwise approach was used to identify the realistic potential in these regions, starting with an estimate of the theoretical potential based on crop- and forest-type …
Patna: The Patna Junction area now has the dubious distinction of being the most polluted part of the state capital, followed by Patna City and Gandhi Maidan. That said, it is not all doom and gloom for the city residents. The air is cleaner and has lesser noxious pollutants in …
Ahmedabad: A new study has started ringing alarm bells for Gujarat cities. The uncontrolled exploitation of the air we breathe and lost green cover is reducing life expectancy in the state by between 2.9 and 3.2 years, the study 'Premature mortality in India due to PM2.5 and ozone exposure' has …
MONTEVIDEO – Ninety-eight percent of Uruguay’s electricity so far this year has come from sources of renewable energy, the president of the state-run electric company UTE said Tuesday. Gonzalo Casaravilla made the announcement during a meeting of business owners, executives and investors in the energy sector that was held at …
New solar, wind and hydropower sources were added in 2015 at the fastest rate the world has yet seen, a study says. Investments in renewables during the year were more than double the amount spent on new coal and gas-fired power plants, the Renewables Global Status Report found. For the …
The objective of the policy is to promote the deployment of micro and mini grids powered by RE sources such as solar, biomass, pico hydro, wind etc. in un-served and underserved parts of the country by encouraging the development of State-level policies and regulations, that enable participation of ESCOs. The …
The objective of the policy is to promote the deployment of micro and mini grids powered by RE sources such as solar, biomass, pico hydro, wind etc. in un-served and underserved parts of the country by encouraging the development of State-level policies and regulations, that enable participation of ESCOs. The …
This paper presents findings from studies in Cambodia and Kenya commissioned by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation to understand the impact of health messaging on the purchase of clean cookstoves. The Cambodia study took an action research approach to test the effects of positive and negative health messaging, as well as …
Air pollution is the leading environmental killer in the world, with more than seven million people dying from air-pollution-related causes in 2012 alone, a new UN report has revealed. Some three billion people, most of whom are in Africa, still use solid organic fuels to cook and heat their homes, …
Women in India who cook using fuels such as wood, crop residues and dried dung instead of cleaner fuels are more likely to have visually impairing nuclear cataracts¹, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The study, the largest of its kind, was conducted by …
Biomass cooking fuels are commonly used by Indian households especially the poorest. Cataract is highly prevalent in India and the major cause of vision loss. The evidence on biomass fuels and cataract is limited. The objective is to examine the association of biomass cooking fuels with cataract and type of …
Communities with more fish species are more productive and more resilient to rising temperatures and temperature swings, says a study. The accelerating loss and rearrangement of species all over the globe due to climate change have troubled scientists and the public for decades. But the question of whether biodiversity offers …
The scientists of Wildlife Institute of India (WII) , SA Hussain and Ruchi Badola have been assigned the task to provide second home to 110 Sangai , brow-antlered and one of the most endangered species under Centre's Endangered Species Recovery Project. Once distributed throughout much of Southeast Asia extending from …
Dedicated biomass crops are required for future bioenergy production. However, the effects of large-scale land use change (LUC) from traditional annual crops, such as corn-soybean rotations to the perennial grasses (PGs) switchgrass and miscanthus on soil microbial community functioning is largely unknown. Specifically, ecologically significant denitrifying communities, which regulate N2O …
Dispelling certain myths about factors contributing to the extremely high air pollution levels in Delhi, an IIT Kanpur professor said on Monday that biomass burning and vehicles were the most important sources of PM 2.5 emissions in winter. Professor Mukesh Sharma, the author of IIT Kanpur's source apportionment study on …
Fish biomass is a primary driver of coral reef ecosystem services and has high sensitivity to human disturbances, particularly fishing. Estimates of fish biomass, their spatial distribution, and recovery potential are important for evaluating reef status and crucial for setting management targets. Here we modeled fish biomass estimates across all …
While environmentalists and activists are largely blaming the timber and land mafia for raging “manmade” forest fires in Uttarakhand and now Himachal Pradesh, they also fault the poor management of such expected “cyclic” events. The lack of compliance of general management practices required to pre-empt such eventualities, which are now …
