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Need to Ease Carbon Taxes: NITI Aayog

India is one of the most expensive places to produce coal-based electricity despite having a competitive advantage in coal. From a developing...

26 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Optimum Utilization of Fly Ash

Recently, Ministry of Power has informed that ash produced by thermal power plants is being utilized in the manufacture of Portland Pozzolana Cement...

26 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Ganga Vriksharopan Abhiyan

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) has launched afforestation drive in five Ganga basin states – Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,...

21 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

One More Way to Fight Global Warming

Scientists are on a mission to fight global warming by making livestock less gassy because livestock is responsible for about 14.5 percent of...

20 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Electric Vehicles Have the Potential to Fuel India’s Growth

It does not take the brightest minds in the world to conclude that the mention of 14 cities of India in the World Health Organisation’s(WHO)...

18 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Is Planting Saplings A Solution To The Felling of Trees

Why in NEWS The Government has notified the draft Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) Rules, 2018. It will facilitate the utilization of over...

13 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

MoEF to Launch Dust Mitigation Measures

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has lined up a slew of measures to tackle dust pollution in the capital. It will include the launch of...

13 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Breathe India

Recently the NITI Aayog proposed a 15-point action plan titled “Breathe India” for combating air pollution in ten most polluted cities in...

12 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Action Plan for Biomass Management

Introduction The farm burning, specific to the paddy-wheat cultivation cycle in the rural regions of Northern and North-Westerns states of India,...

09 Jul 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation

Cumulative Carbon Emissions Can Lead to Rise in Sea Level

A new study published in Nature Climate Change has demonstrated the co-relation between the cumulative carbon emissions and future sea-levels over...

18 Jun 2018 Environmental Pollution & Degradation