‘The collapse in oil prices is not negative for India‘s renewable transition’

Down To Earth speaks to Tim Buckley from the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis on India’s move towards renewable energy

Fishing, agriculture impacted by burning river in Upper Assam: Residents

They alleged the administration was slow to respond to the crisis as the affected area had been supporting anti-CAA protestors

Ecuador annuls austerity decree, restores fuel subsidy

Decree 833 will be replaced with a new one that contains mechanisms to focus resources on who needs it most, said President Lenín Moreno

Tiny island nation threatens to take fossil fuel industries to court over climate change

In a first, Vanuatu says “climate loss and damages ravaging the nation will not go unchallenged”

Regulations on used cooking oil come into effect; plans afoot to convert it into bio-diesel

FSSAI has rolled out new standards for used cooking oil and it is exploring possibility of using it as feedstock for biodiesel production

Fracking damaging for environment, say activists

Irreversible damage caused to water resources due to shale gas exploration is being ignored, particularly in the United States

Troubled oil over waters

A severe oil spill in the Russian arctics has bulldozed the environment and created resentment among the local people. As the government reels …

Outrage

Ken Saro-Wiwa died because he had dared to assert the Ogonis'claims to their In Nigeria, the giant wheels of progress have been leaving a …

Oil in a day's work

THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY·John V Mitchell, Peter Beck and Michael Grubb· Energy and Environment Programme, The Royal Institute …

Arctic plunder

The Bush administration has passed a bill that permits oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Spilling doom

As vast amount of oil is spilt into the ocean, threatening sensitive marine and coastal biology, operation clean-up has turned out to be a large …

Kathmandu runs out of gas, diesel and petrol

Nepal Oil Corporation runs up heavy debt

Oil survey in Assam will endanger biodiversity, affect people

Assam fire: MB Lal Committee recommendations not implemented for a decade

One of the recommendations, of building emergency response centres to handle major oil fires was to be completed in 2014

Assam gas leak and fire: Yet another case of procedural lapse

A lack of standard operating procedures for handling hazardous materials, no proper training is prevalent in several industries

Which forests can be felled for oil palm plantations?

Palm oil companies undertake their own study to decide the magic carbon threshold number

Smells like a fortune: Rising demand for kewda oil a blessing for 200,000 people in Odisha’s Ganjam

Price of a litre of kewda oil increased to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 4.5 lakh last year

Odisha begins process to extract oil from grounded ship in Chilika

The Malaysian ship has been lying grounded in the lake since August 7

Why using microbes to clean contamination is good for us and nature

Microbes are increasingly being used to clean contaminated sites

Oilfree, naturally

Biosurfactants from bacteria help filter wastewater

Devil's alternative

Weeds show potential

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Troule in Black Sea