However, coal is still here. Many European countriesannounced plans to burn more coalin response to Vladimir Putin’s gas export cuts following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Globally, more coal than ever was burnt last year,reported the International Energy Agencythis summer. The past two years...
discussed include the insurgents in the country are called Naxalites, industry's hunger for raw materials and energy needs are associated to killings in the jungle to coal, steel, and power production, and joining the Naxalites...
Indonesia is a new entrant to the RECAI, having set more ambitious renewables targets and policies to retire diesel and coal power plants. The traditional oil and gas sector is also tapping into opportunities in clean energy. According to the Powering ASEAN’s Energy Transition report ...
US federal agents at the Texas border arrested as many as 6,555 people when they tried to enter the US illegally. This is an increase in 86 per cent from the previous year. Nicaragua and the Honduras, two of the poorest nations in the hemisphere, were hit the ha...
Coldplay bought 10,000 mango trees in India to offset an album, only to see many of them die several years later. For their next album, Coldplay decided to protect already established wooded areas in Mexico and Ecuador. Despite questions of legitimacy, forestry offsets are popular because they...
The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to cut roughly a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions a year by 2030, save thousands of lives a year, and prompt a transformation of the U.S. energy and transportation landscape.
In the 1940s, goods such as nylon, rubber and many metals were rationed and recycled to help support the war effort. However, the economic boom of the postwar years caused conservationism to fade from the American consciousness [source: Hall]. It wasn't until the environmental movement of ...
Southeast Asia’s warm, wet climate is helpful, as is its supply of coal, particularly in Indonesia. Many of the people in this part of the world are used to living in cramped quarters–three generations in a large one-room home, for example. Abundant forests provide a renewable source ...
The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) have taken it a step further changing the actual composition(成分) of plants in order to get them to perform differently, even unusual useful things that they do. These include plants that have sensors(传感器) printed onto their lea...
“Running coal plants flexibly can save already-established coal power plants from getting stranded. It also increases the per unit cost of coal power, making renewable energy plus storage more competitive in the merit order dispatch system,” Konda said. ...