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‘India-U.S. clean energy cooperation will go on’ Special Correspondent

"Very little will change. Coal is not coming back in the U.S. regardless of what Republicans say," says Amos J. Hochstein, Special Envoy, Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State.

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Air pollution: NGT directs setting up of monitoring panels

PTI National Green Tribunal on Thursday passed a slew of directions including setting up of centralised and state level monitoring committees to prepare action plans to combat pollution and asking four northern states to consider banning old diesel vehicles, in a bid to tackle environment emergencies.Terming as “severe” levels of pollution when PM 10 and PM 2.5 are above 431 and 251 in the ambient air, a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar asked Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and

Brazilian free-tailed bat is the fastest flying animal: study

PTI It reaches record speeds of over 160 kmph in the night sky, far surpassing the common swift’s 110 kmph.

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Indian NGO bags UN climate award for clean energy project

Vidya Venkat With India ratifying the Paris Agreement on Oct. 2, the project highlights the importance of micro-level, initiatives to contribute to India’s ambitious renewable energy target.

Indian scientists recycle fish scales into green energy

Fish scales contain collagen fibres that generate an electric charge in response to mechanical stress.

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A. Shrikumar ‘Mannin Marangal’, an initiative by Nanal environmentalist youth group documents rare and endangered native trees

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