A group of workers, directed by a Swiss expert, Wolfgang Scheffler, are working hard on a project in a town in Gujarat. When they finish, India will have the first-ever solar crematorium in the

The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC), along with its Canadian partner, Niko Resources Ltd, is struggling to come to terms with too much gas that has caused the largest gas strike among its

Ukrainian authorities restarted the last working nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant, ignoring international pressure to shut it

Tax experts aid that the UK Government's planned levy on fossil fuel use might affect fewer companies than expected. Their comments came as Customs & Excise released the draft clauses of the bill on

The environmental lobby group Greenpeace of Germany is launching a venture which also lays down a challenge to all the people in the country who claim they want "clean" -meaning non-atom, non-coal

The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has been awarded the 1999 CTI World Climate Technology Award. IREDA is a public sector enterprise under the control of the Ministry of

A hydro-electricity power situation built at the end of the last century to serve Welsh slate quarries is to be reopened after almost 50 years to feed a growing British appetite for "green"

Japan's powerful Lower House of Parliament, reacting to a major nuclear accident, passed two bills today to strengthen nuclear supervision and crisis management. The legislation passed with unanimous

Fly-ash pollution from a thermal power plant near Calcutta is threatening lives of at least 2,00,000 people in the area, but the authorities have turned a blind eye to the problem. Hazardous

The ministry for petroleum and natural gas has drawn a blank on the coal bed methane (CBM) policy with state governments pulling in different directions. While the West Bengal government has given