Environment
PM Modi conferred `Champion of Earth’ award
03 Oct 2018
UN Environment is recognising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his bold environmental leadership on the global stage and his pledge to eliminate all single-use plastics in the country by 2022
SoftBank’s Son offers free solar power after projects complete 25 years
03 Oct 2018
Son said while a solar power plant has a total life span of 80 years, its capacity lowers by 15 per cent in the first five years, but generation is maintained at 85 per cent for the rest of its lifetime
UN honours PM Modi, France’s Macron with `Champions of Earth Award’
27 Sep 2018
Besides Modi and Macron, this year’s laureates include Cochin International Airport (for entrepreneurial vision), Joan Carling (defenders), Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods (science and innovation) and China's Zhejiang's Green Rural Revival Programme (inspiration and action)
IMD sounds alert as rain wreaks havoc in North, kill 11
26 Sep 2018
IMD has forecast very heavy rainfall over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and heavy rainfall over Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Sikkim, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Climate change may drive 10% of amphibian species in the Atlantic Rainforest to extinction
14 Sep 2018
New research could reduce primate electrocutions and help conservation strategies
10 Sep 2018
Electrocution threatens a wide range of primate species across the world and the hazard could become more widespread as species are increasingly restricted to human-dominated landscapes
Greener growth could add $26 trn to world economy by 2030: report
06 Sep 2018
Greener growth could generate over 65 million new low-carbon jobs, avoid over 700,000 premature deaths and generate an estimated $2.8 trillion in government revenues per year in 2030 - equivalent to the total GDP of India today, says the report
Water worlds could support life, study says
03 Sep 2018
Kerala disaster could have been prevented: CAG report
31 Aug 2018
Everything that happened to Kerala was entirely predictable and, more important, preventable, if the right tools had been available, says the CAG report
Drought increases CO2 concentration in the air
31 Aug 2018
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