Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 29, 2009, 0:56 IST
The harvesting of jute crop in the current season is likely to come to a standstill due to lack of proper retting facility in jute growing areas of West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.
The acute water shortage in these jute growing states has affected the retting process thereby spoiling the quality of crop.
Companies are taking a selective approach to reducing their impact on the environment, moving slowly on bigger investments while embracing strategies like energy efficiency and waste reduction that quickly lift profits.
As concerns over global warming grow, the number of firms announcing plans to become "greener" have proliferated, with previous laggards now racing to catch up.
Washington:A team of scientists is working on a new generation of eco friendly pyrotechnics that produce less smoke and use fewer toxic metals. Fireworks are fun and exciting, but the flashing displays can harm the environment and pose risks to human health.
Mutilated notes turn into various products, including files, calendars and even paper weights
Reuse: Samples of briquettes made of shredded currency notes and some of the recycled products on display at the RBI in Chennai.
CHENNAI: Ever wondered what happens to your old, soiled currency notes? Well, they could morph into pretty paper files and calendars that adorn your desk.
Go green seems to be the new mantra in Bengal. At a time when leading power groups like Ennore Coke Limited is moving ahead with amazing speed in the power sector, it's time to take stock of the environmental milestones achieved by the group.
Sri Lanka has managed to keep the man-elephant conflict at bay. Elephant dung is used to make paper, an excellent source of revenue, and farmers no longer want to harm elephants, writes Michael Patrao
Sri Lanka has a sizeable elephant population, which has been under threat in recent times despite the fact that it is revered in Buddhist culture.
THRISSUR: Students of biotechnology engineering of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology, Kodakara in the district, have come out with a novel project to convert elephant dung into useful bio-products such as paper, briquette, biogas etc. The project can made use to dispose the huge quantity of elephant dung generated at the Anakotta of Guruvayur Devaswom.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday he was confident the world would sign a global deal to combat climate change in Copenhagen in December.
Barroso urged European industry to gear up for a green technology race instead of shoring up outdated, high-carbon business models.
The world's biggest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, is considering diversifying away from chips for the first time in its 22-year history to combat declining industry margins.
