Biden’s strategy for cutting carbon emissions from electricity generation could extend the lives of fossil fuel power plants
The rule’s reliance on carbon capture and storage ought to be music to fossil fuel companies’ ears
A Renewable Crisis
The last time there was a major push for renewable energy alternatives to polluting fossil fuels was in the aftermath of 1970s oil shock. And then,…
Desperate for gas
Gas is the cleanest of fossil fuels and also more efficient and cheaper to use. Yet, in India, there has been no policy focus on this fuel, …
G20 nations provided a record $1.4 trillion in support of fossil fuels last year
Setting a minimum carbon taxation rate between $25-75 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent depending on the country’s economy would raise …
Fossil fuels: Borrowed time
The world is set to produce over twice the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C
Electric cars could one day power your house – here’s how to make it happen
The process won’t be smooth. Solutions are numerous, but will need support from power companies, and even car manufacturers and finance …
Lithium extraction should be sustainable
In our efforts to make the planet cleaner, we cannot repeat the mistakes we made with fossil fuels
Exxon scientists accurately forecast climate change back in the 1970s – what if we had listened to them and acted then?
Climatic collapse — as we understand it in our world today — could have largely been avoided perhaps
Biden's climate summit: The US needs to walk the talk on fossil fuels
Amid the noise and pagentry, the climate community must specifically maintain laser sharp focus on one theme, among others, namely fossil fuels
We need to immediately stop oil and gas expansion: Environmentalist at helm of anti-fossil fuel movement at CoP26
Tzeporah Berman, a Canadian environmentalist, spoke to DTE at the sidelines of Glasgow summit
Sulphuric acid: The next resource crisis that could stifle green tech and threaten food security
Rapid growth in the green economy and intensive agriculture could see demand rise to over 400 million tonnes by 2040
Methane mystery: fossil fuels spewing less methane, but gas continues to accumulate
New research finds that methane estimates from the 1980s and 90s underestimated emissions. But measuring methane is getting better
It only takes a few countries to kickstart a decarbonisation revolution
New research shows it only takes a few countries to kick-start the kind of global transformation required to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-…
Investors, insurers ask G20 economies to stop fossil fuel subsidies
The G20 governments were urged to establish a deadline for phasing out fossil fuel subsidies for a steady decline in greenhouse gas emissions
Post-COVID-19 focus must be on dropping fossil fuels: UNEP Emissions Gap report
By using a green pandemic recovery to get a head start and pushing on with real systemic change, the world could hit the 2°C target of the …
Why green hydrogen may be the clean fuel for future
Declining costs of renewables and urgency to curb greenhouse gas emissions is accelerating potential growth of hydrogen in political and business …
All you need to know about the energy conservation bill
Bill has provisions for regulating energy consumption by equipment, appliances, buildings and industries
World Environment Day 2021: Greenwashing will not help anybody
The political-industrial complex has been slowly hijacking the new global narrative of transformation and building back better
Lighting up a solution
Prem Shankar Jha makes a case for solar energy while tracing the history of global warming
Thar Desert was once ever tropical forest, new fossil discovery reveals
A set of rare wood boring trace fossils in Barmer region show that the area was under tropical forest and even had vast river network 55 million …
Growing appetite for charcoal destroying Nigeria's tropical forests
The top producer of crude oil in Africa is exporting cheaply made charcoal to the world, especially EU, which is often labelled incorrectly as '…
The twin sword of technology
Engineering solutions like carbon capture and storage create risks that necessitate even more ingenious fixes
Fossil footprints prove humans populated the Americas thousands of years earlier than we thought
Until now, scientists believed humans only travelled south into the Americas when this ice barrier began to melt, at the earliest, 16,500 years ago
Adani should bow out gracefully from its Carmichael coal mine
With the last major court case cleared, Adani is free to proceed with its Carmichael coal mine. But the business case is not looking good
Clean Coal Power: Interview with Lesley Sloss
Lesley Sloss is Principal Environmental Consultant at Clean coal centre, International Energy Agency, United Kingdom. Sloss's areas of expertise …
