power shift: After making waves in the wind energy sector, the Madras-based NEPC group is all set to shine on the solar energy scene. The group holds 80 per cent of the market share in wind energy

Researchers from the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the US have recently developed a measuring device which could enhance the efficiency of clean up operations following an oil spill.

brent Spar, the infamous offshore oil storage platform, may yet be given a burial at sea. Plans are being finalised for its deep-sea disposal by Shell, which owns the platform. Last year, Shell

In an 11-to-one decision by the Texas state court jury, US-based oil company Exxon Corporation won US $250 million from Lloyd's of London, underwriting syndicates, and other insurers that sold

CARELESSNESS on the part of a worker has resulted in a major oil spill in the Hooghly river at Haldia about 80 km from Calcutta. Marine pollution control vessels belonging to the Calcutta

Under the onslaught of international criticism, Shell Nigeria, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant which had perpetrated one of the worst environmental crimes in Ogoniland, is trying desperately to

PEOPLE of three hamlets in Alathur village near Avadi in Tamil Nadu are fac- ing the hazards of severe pollution caused by brick-kilns using poor quality crude. Despite repeated appeals by vil-

WITH yet another, oil spill, this time off the coast of south Wales in the UK, the world's oceans may soon contain more oil rather than water! The recent Oil spill occured when an oil tanker -

AN OIL spill from an ageing section of the Nurlino-Novosibirsk pipeline, running along the Belaya river in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, which was earlier thought to be of meagre

Sound waves to break up oil droplets that contaminate Soil