The whirring of machines stops for an hour in the afternoon. Before heading for their lunch break, V. Kumaran, a worker, checks the PH levels at the biomethanation plants at…
Sugar mills in the sugarcane-growing state of Maharashtra are experimenting with using press mud, a by-product of sugarcane, in producing bio-CNG, a renewable source of transport fuel. One of the…
Fossil fuels kickstarted the industrial age for humanity. However, humans now face the possibility of running out of these fuels by the end of this century. So, where do industries that…
The Indian government recently claimed that it has achieved 9.45 percent ethanol blending with petrol, a practice which contributes to lower emissions and other environmental benefits. At this pace, the…
The central Indian state of Chhattisgarh experimented with the idea of using jatropha seeds for biofuel production for years but the ambitious scheme failed due to various reasons including a…
Launched in 2016 to boost the usage of clean cooking fuels and control the related disease burden, the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has claimed success with almost 98 percent…
Household air pollution caused mainly by the burning of solid fuels, including biomass—firewood, charcoal, coal, dung, and agricultural waste—and ambient air pollution are among the leading risk factors contributing to…
In August 2018, SpiceJet airline made history in the Indian transportation sector. A journey of about 285 kilometres from Dehradun (in Uttarakhand) to New Delhi was completed with a fuel…
While air pollution in metropolitan cities like Delhi has hogged the headlines over the past few years, we don’t know much about how our emissions from various activities are affecting…
