Andhra holds public hearing on Vedanta gas project amid surging COVID-19 graph

The hearing was scheduled for December 17, 2020 but was cancelled after people resisted

Tips to check quality of some common foods

Some simple tests to check oil, honey, sugar and other items for adulteration

Clipped wings

Birds under threat from illegal dumping of bilge on Canadian coast

No respite for Taj

Dispirited agreement

Reviving the ethanol programme, on paper

In court

269 dead in oil pipeline blast in Lagos

News 360°-Brief

Chemicals used in oil and gas extraction harmful to reproductive health

Review of more than 150 studies shows evidence of ill effects on human health

Oil drilling threatens the Okavango River Basin, putting water in Namibia and Botswana at risk

Okavango River sustains over half a million people in Namibia and Botswana

We’re way off track to meet sustainable energy goals

One of the key deterrents for the countries in the Global South is the lack of finance

Land for ideology swap

Geopolitics, a mineral-rich disputed territory, Egypt-Sudan ties and the fall of Morsi

Sifting success

Indian refinery ready to become a zero effluent discharge plant

Bad to worse

Bytes

Iran reverses stance on tri-nation gas pipeline

Oil leak triggers crisis in Russia

US firm to explore oil beneath Black Sea

High road to COP28: Ditch carbon capture tech, set end date for oil & gas production, report to developed nations

Experts worry investments in CCS could rob funds from renewable energy projects

SOUTH AFRICA

Pay up time

Clean-up time

Coochie-cooing for oilspills

Dirty fuel

Even as China reduces carbon dioxide emissions by reducing coal use, US policy encourages it

BRAZIL