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Sunday, September 21, 2025
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Topic: Fossil fuels

‘Higher capacity turbines, strengthening infra’ — how India can meet its wind energy targets

India is set to scrap e-reverse auction process for wind, which many felt led to 'unhealthy competition'. Experts say it’s 1 of many steps needed to rejuvenate stagnating sector.

Cigarette ads were banned decades ago. Let’s do the same for fossil fuels

You might say that a flight to a sunny beach in Mexico won't put the lives of others at risk. But there's a collective action problem here.

Fossil fuel subsidy 9 times higher than for clean energy, says study on India’s net-zero goal

Study by think tanks International Institute for Sustainable Development and Council on Energy, Environment and Water released 31 May.

Power outage risks increase as India’s coal stockpiles plunge to 3-year low

Heavy rains in mining regions are worsening coal supply crisis. The dwindling supplies also come at a time when electricity consumption has been strong due to revival in economic activity.

How Netherlands plans to move to zero-emission deliveries by 2025

The Netherlands government is giving delivery firms cash help to buy or lease electric vehicles.

Businessman writes ‘practical playbook’ for affordable shift to ‘Fossil Free’ world

Written by Sumant Sinha & published by HarperCollins India, 'Fossil Free' will be released on 12 November on ThePrint's SoftCover.

Capitalism caused the current climate crisis, it must also be the solution

Perhaps instead of trying to make the climate subservient to the needs of expanding gross domestic product, we need to cut our economic coat according to our atmospheric cloth.

The world has a methane emissions problem and it’s worse than what scientists thought

New research suggests fossil-fuel production may be responsible for much more atmospheric methane than scientists previously thought.

Air pollution costs world $8 billion a day, Greenpeace says

India bears one of the highest economic costs of pollution at an estimated $150 billion every year. China and US are impacted more at $900 billion and $600 billion respectively.

India is coal’s brightest star but it’s facing a burning question

Coal-fired power has long failed in terms of health & climate impacts, but now its raw economics are collapsing too. Even the govt can’t keep it going for long.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.