NEW DELHI: The mandatory retrofitting of coal-fired generation plants with mechanisms to reduce sulphur emission will apply to only units within 10 km of cities with population exceeding 10 lakh instead of all power stations under a 2015 mandate.The revised policy, notified on Saturday, is expected to reduce the cost of power by 25-30 paise…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made an extraordinary discovery by detecting emissions from a galaxy located over 13 billion light-years away. This breakthrough provides a rare opportunity to study the universe’s conditions just 400 million years after the Big Bang.A window into the early universeAccording to media reports, the galaxy, named GHZ2 (also…
NEW DELHI: With many polluting thermal power plants missing the third deadline to implement emission standards for Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) notified in 2015, the environment ministry has given them a fourth extension by stretching the timeline by three more years to install pollution control equipment.Giving relief to defaulters, the ministry has extended the deadline for…
NEW DELHI: India’s overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions dropped by 7.93 per cent in 2020 as compared to 2019, as per the data submitted to the UN climate change office. The country’s emission intensity, greenhouse gases emitted per unit of GDP, dropped by 36 per cent between 2005 and 2020, as highlighted in the fourth…