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Warming Plateau? Climatologists Face Inconvenient Truth
Data shows global temperatures aren’t rising the way climate scientists have predicted. Now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change faces a problem: publicize these findings and encourage...
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Global Status of Carbon Capture and Storage 2013 – One step forward, one step...
Click Here for global-status-ccs-2013 Report A new survey finds a sharp drop in large-scale integrated projects to capture CO2 from energy systems and bury it underground. This drop from 75 projects to...
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The disruptive potential of solar power
As costs fall, the importance of solar power to senior executives is rising. The economics of solar power are improving. It is a far more cost-competitive power source today than it was in the...
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Are you ready for the resource revolution?
Meeting increasing global demand requires dramatically improving resource productivity. Yet technological advances mean companies have an extraordinary opportunity not only to meet that challenge but...
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10 Huge Lessons We’ve Learned From Solar Power Success In Germany
Ritesh: While this article is dated Early 2013, it provides us an insight into the scare mongers especially Discoms who claim that Solar will disrupt existing power infrastructure whereas in truth...
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Renewable energy market share climbs despite 2013 dip in investments
Installed solar jumped 26 percent — from 31 Gigawatts in 2012 to a record 39 GW in 2013 — even as investment in solar capacity decreased 23 percent from US$135.6 billion to US$104.1 billion. Renewable...
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Biomass Emissions Question Arises Again
It’s called “urban biomass,” and it’s ours (spsmw.org). Hard to imagine a subject that would find The Wall Street Journal and Grist in line with each other’s thinking, but burning wood for energy has...
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Hybrid Cars Significantly More Fuel-Efficient In India & China Than US
Hybrid vehicles are significantly more fuel-efficient in India and China than they are in the US, according to new research from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory....
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Air pollution 5th largest killer in India: Study
(The study has claimed that…) Air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India taking 6.2 lakh lives per year and Delhi is among one of the five most critically polluted regions in the country, a...
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Fossil fuel subsidies costing global economy $2 trillion: IMF
Science informs us about the environmental cost of our global fossil fuel habit – the IPCC recently reported that CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes contributed around...
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Carbon Dioxide Beat Historic Level Every Day Of April 2014
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere averaged more than 400 parts per million throughout April, the first time the planet’s monthly average has surpassed that threshold. The data from the...
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This Is What a Significant Moment for Global Warming Looks Like According to...
This Antarctic glacier may be history, says new research. It contains almost two feet of sea level rise, and that’s just the beginning. NASA. If you truly understand global warming, then you know it’s...
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In Latest Step In Its ‘War On Smog’ Effort, China Says It Will Triple Solar...
As part of its notorious “war on smog” and effort to cut its reliance on coal, the Chinese government on Friday announced that it would speed up solar power development in the country by tripling...
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Global Temperatures In April Tied For The Hottest On Record
A woman walks to get water near Gauhati, Assam, India in April. Rising temperatures coupled with scanty rainfall are badly affecting farmers in many parts of this north-eastern state. CREDIT: AP...
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Ramesh Agrawal wins 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for his crusade against...
With a small internet café as his headquarters, Ramesh Agrawal organized villagers to demand their right to information about industrial development projects and succeeded in shutting down one of the...
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How fossil fuel interests are funding renewable battles
Ritesh- While this may be for the US, it’s also true across the globe and can be so for our country too except that we don’t have a transparent view into the going ons in government. Yesterday, Ohio...
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Coal isn’t going away soon! China’s clean fuel focus tests U.S. coal exports...
A child wearing a mask plays in the heavy smog in Qingdao in east China’s Shandong province on Jan. 24, 2013. Experts say that if China wants to avoid the kind of smog that choked the country earlier,...
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The German Coal Conundrum, busting the myth – The status of coal power in...
Is Germany building new coal plants to replace nuclear despite the country’s green ambitions? Many observers conclude so. But an in-depth look reveals that the growth of renewables has more than...
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India to invite bidding for largest solar power project; aims to achieve a...
India is about to launch the largest bidding of solar power projects worth 1,500 MW under its flagship Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). In what the government officials claim is the...
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Toyota is creating a combustion engine that directly generates electricity
Electric vehicles have come a long way in recent years, but even the premium-priced Tesla cars are short on range compared to good old internal combustion. Gasoline is probably going to remain part of...
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