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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
TopicFossil fuel

Topic: Fossil fuel

Why late-comer India has an advantage in embracing the Green economic transition

Next-door Pakistan amply shows why change is must. Floods have drowned the neighbouring country and its economy, with damage magnified by 50 per cent because of climate change.

Scientists discover 6-million-year-old fossil of day-hunting owl in China

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

The Paris Agreement will help fight climate change. But it’s missing a critical element

The Agreement misses out on listing fossil fuels as one of the main contributors to climate change.

India’s energy transition path is on track. Now it needs to pick pace: Analysis

The ongoing Covid-19 recovery efforts offer five key lessons, and also reveal some blind spots that can potentially undermine the hard-earned progress.

World’s cleanest fossil fuel is set for a post-pandemic rebound

Demand for liquefied natural gas is growing faster than for any other fossil fuel as nations look for a cheap, reliable and cleaner alternative to coal.

What has climate change led to? Riots, uprising and tyranny

In ‘Fossil Free’, Sumant Sinha writes about the social and economic impacts of climate change, especially in oil-producing countries.

India’s coal power usage set to shrink for first time in 14 years

Power generation from coal slumped 11% from a year earlier in November as demand slowed and cheaper, cleaner renewable sources of electricity eat into coal's share.

How fossil fuel industry misled Americans deliberately about climate change

Scientists working for the fossil fuel industry knew about the potential warming effects of CO2 emissions as early as the 1950s.

Cyclones Titli and Luban forming on either coast is a ‘rarest of rare’ occurrence

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, will offer you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Oh no! Climate change will threaten beer supply, double prices

A study has shown that the price surge likely to be caused by climate change would have the worst impact in countries that drink the most beer. 

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.