Gluttons for oil

It's high time the Indian economy became leaner and adopted a low oil diet

Energy aplenty

Methan-ol vs ethanol

The US Environmental Protection Agency gets a rap on its knuckles

New fuel

How a common industrial chemical becomesfuel

White hope

Pollution disturbs cloud chemistry for good?

Tax recycling pays

Fuel for warming the globe

A collapse in the price of fossil fuel means bad news for efforts to curb global warming

Big polluter

Microchips stomp heavily on the environment

Stop trashing computers

To conserve precious resources

The rich polluter

ExxonMobil has emitted five per cent of CO2 pollutant since 1882

Futuristic ride

Clean-up act

More carbon dioxide spurring plant growth

New measurement techniques show the level of atmospheric oxygen is decreasing in direct proportion to the burning of fossil fuels. These …

Hidden sink uncovered

A recent finding shows that over 35 billion tonnes of 'mysteriously missing' carbon dioxide from fossil fuels burnt over four decades went to …

Warming the world

Scientists say that 1998 was the hottest year in the past 1,200 years

Crude world

The many little black deeds of oil

The super cars are coming

With aerospace technologies set to revolutionise engine and body design, today's cars could become as obsolete as dinosaurs.

Taxing times

DOUBLESPEAK

Energy tax alternative still remains elesive

The US senate is in a dilemma because every alternative they have thought up to the contentious energy tax has received loud protests from some …

Warming the world

Polluted cities

Air pollution in several US cities was severe this summer, says a recent report

A step too small

The government fails again to take the right decision and carries on with its lopsided fuel policy

The obvious choice

Consuming bill

US energy bill passed by house of representatives