Is nuclear energy a good choice for our environment?

Source: Enviro Gadget

Electricity can be generated from many resources available, but currently it is required to check the resources of energy which should be renewable and also fulfill our increasing energy demands. As compared to electricity whic ...
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Sunita Narain: Pollution, the great leveller

Source: Business Standard

It’s unfortunate that instead of fighting pollution and demanding change, the city’s rich and famous – many drive big cars and run them on subsidised diesel – think they can opt out of this “dirty” system and even generate their own air to breathe. A ha ...
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Mazda bets on internal combustion engine

Source: BBC World

The CX-5 is the first in a series of cars that will replace Mazda's entire product range over the next four years in an effort to reinvent the brand With electric motoring having become all the rage in the motor industry, it is ...
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High-speed rail secret: Construction will give Valley air a bad bump

Source: Fresno Bee

Backers of California's proposed high-speed rail system frequently tout the long-term air-quality benefits of getting people out of cars and planes and onto electric-powered trains. But any reductions in ...
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MARK KIESLING: There are no losers in this refinery agreement

Source: The Times

The agreement BP reached to pay $400 million to upgrade its environmental controls at its Whiting Refinery is a winner for all sides. Well, maybe not the company itself, which already is spending billions to update the refinery to process ...
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Australian researchers tackle emissions

Source: The Nation - Thailand

Clean coal is a must given that coal accounts for the majority of fuel used in power generation. At present, coal is the main resource accounting for 80 per cent of total resource, to produce electricity in Australia because the country has more ...
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Why India Should Hike Diesel Prices

Source: International Business Times

Fearing a political backlash, the India n government has postponed the decision to hike the diesel prices for the time being. However, economists feel that it is time the government deregulated the prices of diesel and stopped subsidizing them. In ...
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Environmental groups press EPA to regulate carbon dioxide from existing power plants

Source: EcoEarth News

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Environmental and public health advocates pressed the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants during a May 24 hearing on a proposal to limit carbon dio ...
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High-speed method to aid search for solar energy storage catalysts

Source: Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight

(Nanowerk News) Eons ago, nature solved the problem of converting solar energy to fuels by inventing the process of photosynthesis. Plants convert sunlight to chemical energy in the form of biomass, while releasing oxygen as an environmentally ...
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