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Friday, May 3, 2024
TopicCarbon emissions

Topic: Carbon emissions

How Kolkata with electric buses and ferries plans to fight air pollution

Kolkata averaged a PM 2.5 concentration of 85.4 micrograms per cubic metre of air in 2018, more than eight times the recommended limit.

What is hydrogen fuel? Supreme Court’s solution to Delhi’s air pollution crisis

SC has asked govt to explore hydrogen fuel tech to find solution to Delhi's air crisis. Hydrogen is zero-emission fuel, but manufacturing the gas is quite polluting.

Beef burgers are problematic, not just for your health but also the climate

What eventually lands on your plate isn't just simply an assembled meal of meat and bread, but links back to farming practices, change in land use and impact on the environment.

India’s first indigenous fuel cell a silent, green alternative to noisy diesel generators

The fuel cell has been developed by the CSIR in partnership with Thermax Ltd, a Pune-based engineering firm.

Climate fight goes into orbit with satellites monitoring carbon emissions

Satellites for Climate Action is a collaboration between Bloomberg, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Planet Labs to seek data needed to combat climate change.

India gets its first electric vehicle as Hyundai launches Kona SUV

Hyundai’s electric car plan is betting on PM Narendra Modi’s attempt to move India towards cleaner energy in everything.

Highest global carbon emissions in 7 years indicate failed efforts to control climate change

China, India and the U.S. were responsible for two thirds of the 2.9% increase in consumption, said BP's annual review of world energy.

Study shows climate change has a new victim — a type of cloud

A supercomputer simulation study at Caltech shows that at current rate of emissions, low lying clouds that cool the planet will go extinct.

Want to save the planet? Take carbon out of the air

Deep decarbonisation can reduce carbon emissions by large amounts, but is extremely expensive, and no one is doing it yet.

On Camera

BJP needs to be Bengalified. Go beyond rosogolla, eat pantabhaat, know what’s hodol kutkut

Words like 'ghuspethiye' or 'tushtikaran' resonate very little in West Bengal, nor do phrases like 'mangalsutra' or Amit Shah's distortion of Mamata Banerjee's 'Maa, Mati, Manush' slogan into 'mullah, madrasa, mafia'.

How govt brought Vodafone Idea back from the brink & earned a neat profit in the process

In 2021, the government allowed telcos to convert interest on deferred spectrum payments and AGR dues into equity. This made it the single largest stakeholder in Vodafone Idea.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.