Farm-state lawmakers on Wednesday asked the Obama administration to back a broader definition of biomass for use in renewable fuels, an issue entangled with congressional action on climate change.

The European Union will boost economies and create an additional 410,000 jobs if the bloc meets its target of getting one fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, a new report shows.

The 27-country bloc will boost gross domestic product (GDP) by a quarter of 1 percent in the process, the study prepared for the European Commission's energy department said.

Villages near Tiruchirapalli show the city how to manage sewage

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Energy can be produced from several non-conventional sources, including degradable and non-degradable waste. The Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT) under the Department of Power in Kerala invents and promotes such technologies.

South Koreans are not cleaning their plates of fermented cabbage and spicy octopus, so the government is calling in foreigners for help.

The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to utilise tons of domestic garbage and carcass of animals in a different way. The LMC in place of dumping garbage and carcass on the outskirts of the city will now use it for production of cooking gas. The task has been assigned to a city-based NGO. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the directorate of local bodies here on Thursday.