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

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

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 …

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

Widespread natural gas adoption in Africa can create millions of jobs: Study

Despite holding over 8% of the world’s proven reserves of natural gas, Africa remains the most energy-poor continent

What will the National Green Hydrogen Mission mean for India?

The idea is to bring down the production cost from Rs 350-400 per kilogram to about Rs 100 per kg

As world converges for an African CoP, the continent’s east bets on geothermal

Ethiopia, Kenya are actively making efforts to generate geothermal power; but experts have concerns

Bye-bye Pumpjack? Report says renewable energy to power geopolitics

The document by the International Renewable Energy Agency says the nations that focus on innovation and research related to renewable energy will …

Loyalty to scriptures should not breed hostility to science

Lately, a slew of remarks by political leaders in the country had nixed established scientific principles

Is Kamala Harris a reliable climate leader?

Harris, the democratic vice-presidential candidate, expressed support for the Green New Deal, but has represented the establishment wing of the …

Tanzania’s gas boom that never was — when local hopes are dashed by global realities

Perceptions of what gas could bring in the future changed; the industry shattered dreams and left environmental effects such as pollution …

Southern African countries can do better at infrastructure: What the choices might look like

Decision makers need to employ strategic foresight to better navigate uncertainty, upheaval and inevitable change

What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words

Heads of oil industry had been privately informed by their leaders that their products would alter the climate of the planet long ago; they …