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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicCarbon capture

Topic: Carbon capture

What is CCUS technology and why did Sitharaman push for a Rs 20,000 crore investment?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget speech, proposed investing in the controversial CCUS technology as a way to reduce emissions.

The scientists who popularised carbon capture have a warning about It

The problem is that carbon capture was meant to cancel out past emissions. Instead, it’s bred overconfidence that the strategy can substitute cuts to fossil fuels.

Is carbon capture tech more viable than renewable energy? Stanford study has an answer

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Modi govt plans to rejuvenate 13 rivers, hopes it’ll boost forest cover & carbon sequestration

Detailed project reports of the rivers were prepared by Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education & released Monday. Project looks at creating riparian forests for river rejuvenation

Carbon Capture might help reverse the effects of global warming, but it isn’t enough

Even if the world manages to keep global warming at 2 degrees Celsius — the goal of the Paris climate agreement — consequences will be severe.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.