After the six-tonne UARS satellite of Nasa that crashed into the Pacific ocean over a week ago, another is approaching fast for a fiery death plunge soon.

Lufthansa is the world's first airlines to use biofuel on scheduled flights. In the long term, the aviation industry will not achieve its climate goals without biofuels.

Because the price of solar panels is plummeting, large ground-mounted photovoltaic plants are squeezing solar thermal power plants out of the market. Is the future of concentrated solar power already over?

The EU and the United States are pursuing ambitious goals in the use of CCS technology. But there are still almost no pilot projects, and cost-effectiveness remains a big question mark.

Chandigarh's reputation is taking a smelly beating.

Europe's first exchange for trading wood pellets, used to replace coal in electricity generation, will be launched on November 3 in the port of Rotterdam, Anglo-Dutch exchange APX Endex said in a s

Solar electricity has finally joined the national power grid in India. What’s more significant, it has entered the grid at a cost far less than expected, reducing the need for heavy government subsidies to make the sector viable.

We need new economic indicators to measure prosperity in an inclusive and carbon-liable world
In June next year world leaders will gather in the joyful city of Rio de Janeiro to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) — the Earth Summit. It will be 40 years since the Stockholm conference, when the question of the environment first caught global attention. At Stockholm, developing countries were uncertain — Indira Gandhi, India’s then prime minister, was the only leader from this part of the world to attend the meet.

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Environmental group Greenpeace calls it a "dying and dangerous" industry and Europe's biggest engineering conglomerate, Siemens, is exiting the sector altogether.

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