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Hitachi ABB Power Grids in India sets 2030 carbon-neutral programme
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 26 (ANI): Hitachi ABB Power Grids in India on Wednesday announced a comprehensive programme to achieve carbon-neutrality targets by 2030 in its operations, reaffirming its commitment to a sustainable energy future.
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Tesla suspends taking Bitcoin for vehicle purchases, citing environmental
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 13 (ANI): Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, recently announced that the company has stopped accepting bitcoin as payment for its cars out of concern- that it will contribute to greater consumption of fossil fuels.
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Researchers discover 18.5 million year old vine fossil as new species
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 8 (ANI): An 18.5 million-year-old fossil found in Panama researchers at the Cornell University provides evidence of a new species and is the oldest reliable example of a climbing woody vine known as a liana from the soapberry family. The discovery sheds light on the evol
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3M to reduce use of new plastic by 57 million kg in 5 years
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 23 (ANI): 3M, the US-based multinational focused on industrial, healthcare and consumer products, has committed to reduce its dependence on virgin fossil-based plastic by 57 million kg in the next five years as part of a new sustainability goal.
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Asia Pacific's energy transition will be long-drawn-out: S&P
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Singapore, April 21 (ANI): Energy transition is firmly underway in Asia-Pacific (APAC) but the pace and degree varies across markets, S&P Global Ratings has said in a new study.
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Karnataka to focus on electric vehicles due to high energy costs
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], April 6 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana on Tuesday said the shift to electric mobility has become necessary due to the fast depletion of fossil fuels, increase in energy costs.
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Stranded assets a long-term risk for major fossil fuel exporters: Fitch
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], February 19 (ANI): Fossil fuel exporters face a loss of GDP, government revenue and export receipts from the transition to a lower-carbon economy over the coming decades, Fitch Ratings has said in a new report.
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Coal and COVID-19: How pandemic is accelerating the end of fossil power ge
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Potsdam [Germany], February 8 (ANI): COVID-19 has not only caused a temporary drop in global CO2 emissions, but it has also reduced the share of power generated by burning coal - a trend that could, in fact, outlast the pandemic.
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Fossil pigments shed new light on vertebrate evolution
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): UCC palaeontologists have discovered new evidence that the fate of vertebrate animals over the last 400 million years has been shaped by microscopic melanin pigments.
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SAKSHAM Cyclothon 2021 organised in Karnataka to promote 'clean, green ene
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], January 31 (ANI): Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Limited and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) on Sunday organised SAKSHAM Cyclothon 2021 here in Kalaburagi to spread awareness to support the conservation of fossils, as it is a non-renewable resource
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Boris Johnson to announce end of UK's support to fossil fuel sector overse
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom will stop funding and promoting fossil fuel projects overseas as part of the country's transition to low-carbon energy to tackle climate change, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce, as he opens the Climate Ambi
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NASA's new Mars Rover will use x-rays to hunt fossils
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a challenging road ahead: after having to make it through the harrowing entry, descent, and landing phase of the mission on February 18, 2021, it will begin searching for traces of microscopic life from billions of
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