Scientists form the Smithsonian Environmental Research Centre, Oxford University and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development have reported that the Australian rainforests are dying twice as fast as they were in the 1980s.
As several parts of India have been troubled with heatwaves, since last month. There has been a shortage of power because of increased consumption. For over 8 days in April, India witnessed a shortage of about 100 million units of electricity, resulting in power cuts.
Orlando Rojas at the University of British Columbia along with his colleagues have devised a process to turn recycled wood into a material that is five times stronger than steel.
According to a new Lancet study, more than 2.3 million Indians died prematurely in 2019 making it the highest among the other countries. The latest Lancet Commission on pollution and health report laid out some shocking numbers highlighting that about 9 million people lost their lives due to pollution.
In an attempt to reduce the ocean’s plastic pollution a New York based naval architect firm H2 industries designed a unique ship that can collect the plastic waste from the ocean and transform it into clean hydrogen.
The new report released by the World Meteorological Department (WMO) highlighted that the ocean’s temperature and acidic levels touched a record high in the last year. The ‘State of the Global Climate’ report highlighted that the record rise in the global temperature has resulted in the significant melting of glaciers and thus increased the sea level to new heights.
According to IEA’s 2020 report, the Netherlands’ 71% energy came from fossil based fuel sources..The country is now going to be the second in the list of countries issuing ban on fossil fuels for heating purposes after Germany.
Egypt will launch its National Strategy for Climate Change for 2050 in the presence of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and other groups of ministers.
The new research conducted by Greenpeace India has highlighted that the maximum temperature in Mumbai and Pune is going to reach up to 45.4C by the 2080-2099 period.
Hyderabad based organization Greenko Group has started the construction of the world’s largest integrated renewable energy storage project (IRESP). The project is being established with a budget of $3 billion in the Kurnool district and is expected to complete by 2023.