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Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without pesticides

In India, many women are planting more than 20 different crops on their farms with nutrition – and not money – in mind. This type of farming stems back to previ...

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Big dams stage a comeback as concerns over climate change grow

Fund flow for hydropower projects increases in the name of combating climate change but what about social and environmental safeguards? Climate change and growing concerns ...

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Big dams stage a comeback as concerns over climate change grow

Fund flow for hydropower projects increases in the name of combating climate change but what about social and environmental safeguards? Climate change and growing concerns ...

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Sustainable energy through biomass

Biomass fuels come from things that once lived, such as wood products, dried vegetation, crop residues, aquatic plants and even garbage India’s energy demand is on th...

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Killer Coal

Coal accounts for 41 per cent of the world’s electricity generation. At approximately 210 gig watt (GW), India is the fifth largest producer of electricity in the wor...

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About 1.6 Billion People Of The World Depend On Forests For Living

First-ever survey on forest genetic resources by FAO calls for urgent measures to protect the precious resources which provide a range of economic, health and ecological be...

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US Releases Draft Rules To Cut Carbon Emissions From Coal Power Plants 30% By 2030

Rules to be finalised after public consultations aims to prevent 2,700 to 6,600 premature deaths and about 150,000 asthma attacks The United States (US) has released its dr...

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India and China Need to Take Steps on Climate Change

The US has said that it is willing to take steps to reduce its emissions but also wants countries like India and China to take responsibility to address the challenge of cl...

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Environment: Clear the air on green clearances

The new government needs to bring in second-generation reforms for environment which can strike a balance between the need for economic development and rights of a local co...

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Beating The Odds To Become First Female Chief Nuclear Officer

There are nine men for every woman in nuclear engineering. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Maria Korsnick, the first female chief nuclear officer in the U.S., about her ...

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