Mercury emissions are poisoning seafood amongst the chemicals that poison fish, methyl mercury is one. An environmental pollutant, it makes its way into the ocean where it enters the food chain and is consumed by fish which are eaten by humans. In the US, 40 per cent of all human exposure to mercury is from tuna harvested in the Pacific Ocean, the northern part of which was the study

Europe has started moves to help China develop technology to trap and bury carbon dioxide (CO2) underground in the fight against global warming.

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a process of burying harmful gases, is seen by some as a potential silver bullet to curb coal-fired power plants' emissions, which are multiplying rapidly and threaten to heat the atmosphere to dangerous levels.

June 23: The state finance minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Tuesday pitched for better coal supply to its thermal power project even as he said that the state was fully geared to take advantage of the restructured
Accelerated Power Development Reform
(APDR). He was speaking at the state power ministers meeting in the national capital.

NEW DELHI: The World Bank has sanctioned a loan of $225.5 million to India in the shape of assistance for renovation and modernisation of four coal-fired units with a combined capacity of 640 MW.

THE World Bank will extend a $180-million loan to India for upgrading its polluting coal-fired power plants and bringing down carbon emissions.

Blending up to 20% of coal consumption of thermal plants.

Imported coal blending brought down fuel consumption as it had higher calorific value

Increasing imported coal content was difficult due to high international prices

Coal requirement likely to further rise in the coming months, when additional stations are added

C. Shivkumar

A spokeswoman for the parliamentary group of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said the group will reconsider the carbon capture and storage (CCS) law again in two weeks.