Humanity's longest struggle has been the ongoing battle waged on different fronts to feed itself. Over the last 10,000 years, food production and consumption have been rigorously engineered to meet demand. To ensure food security for the growing population, agriculture has been modernized with the use of machines, large quantities of fuels, pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and chemicals
April 7, 2022A team of IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Delhi, The Energy & Resources Institute (TERI), and IISER Mohali will execute the study in the national capital. Delhi Government’s Delhi Pollution Control Committee has been authorized to act as the nodal agency for executing the study with IIT Kanpur.
February 15, 2022However, in the NCR, PM2.5 emissions have only increased by 3 per cent as decrease in emissions from residential and agricultural burning sectors has been compensated by increased PM emissions in the industrial sector, the report mentioned.
December 24, 2021Though directions have been issued, only 24 industries have so far installed the cameras while 61 more industries are in the process of installation of the cameras. However, 60 industries, classified in highly polluted categories, are yet to abide by government order and are yet to put in place the cameras.
November 26, 2021After German automaker Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal, it is now the US auto giant Ford Motor that was accused of emissions cheating in a bid to promote its diesel engine trucks. A class action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in Detroit in the state of Michigan, claiming Ford and German auto supplier Bosch of knowingly installing …
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January 11, 2018Traditional cookstove produce much higher levels of particulate emissions than thought.
January 4, 2018Paying people to conserve their trees could be a highly cost-effective way to reduce deforestation and carbon emission and should be a key part of the global strategy to fight climate change, scientists say. The study, led by Seema Jayachandran, associate professor at Northwestern University in the US, sought to evaluate how effective “Payments for …
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July 21, 2017Aiming to cut down emissions, India on 8 June announced a national mission on cleaner coal utilisation and setting up of two centres of excellence on clean coal technologies entailing an expenditure of $248 million. Leading the Indian delegation at the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial here, Union Environment and Science Minister Harsh Vardhan announced a …
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June 9, 2017Aiming to cut down emissions, India on Thursday announced a national mission on cleaner coal utilisation and setting up of two centres of excellence on clean coal technologies entailing an expenditure of $248 million. Leading the Indian delegation at the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial here, Union Environment and Science Minister Harsh Vardhan announced a national …
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June 8, 2017Shimla, 28 April — Coal sector reforms as improvement in coal quality and efficiency in the supply chain has brought the cost of power from coal-powered plants in the country, an official of Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) said on Friday. The official said that the reforms initiated by the Central government headed by Prime …
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April 28, 2017