''What the scientists are saying about global warming and the glaciers in North and South Poles melting and raising the sea level is all bull****!,'' observed Medical Education Minister Ramachandra Gowda here on Thursday.

US President Barack Obama today announced a series of steps as part of his comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy, and its promise of new industries and millions of jobs.

A new fuel discovered by a Dubai-based firm is claimed to be more efficient in cutting metals and would cause less harm to the environment.

India defies global trend on mixing ethanol in auto fuel

DAVOS: India on Wednesday decried attempts to divert food grains for bio-fuels.

G.V.R. Subba Rao

The bio-methanisation plant at Ajit Singhnagar in Vijayawada.

VIJAYAWADA: With the bio-methanisation plant in the city failing to generate power from the gas produced by using municipal solid waste, the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) is exploring various other possibilities to put the plant into use.

Amid acute energy shortages in Pakistan, the first national body on alternative energy resources was formed on Monday with an objective to reduce the nation

Two Ranchi-based think tanks of Steel Authority of India (SAIL)

Sanjay Jog / Mumbai January 05, 2010, 0:57 IST

The central government, which has stepped up efforts for the blending of ethanol in a 5 per cent proportion with petrol, has threatened to blacklist ethanol manufacturers if they fail to supply the commodity to oil marketing companies (OMCs).

The United States is investing billions of dollars each year in subsidies and tax breaks to domestic ethanol producers in the hope that biofuels will become a major plank of an energy security and fuel diversification program. Moreover, the investment has grown in recent years.

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