Environment Day special: ACmageddon

Net Zero by 2070: India still has 99 coal projects in pipeline

India has a 36% underutilised coal capacity in existing mines

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

Green tribunal stays wall construction in Rajaji National Park

NGO says construction the wall would obstruct elephant movement

Hauz Khas village restaurants under scanner for spewing untreated sewage

Eight out of 34 restaurants in the area have been operating without any clearance

Doubts persist over Green Climate Fund taking off at Doha

Workshop on climate finance gives hope, but a lot of work remains to be done

‘Don’t push tar sands’

Nobel laureates ask Canada to stop extracting dirty oil

Bonn to bust

Kyoto Protocol’s future uncertain after the stalemate in Germany

Who's afraid of 2C?

Green tribunal orders closure of 18 polluting industries in Noida

Order follows site inspections by a joint committee appointed by tribunal

Climate change could hit India, 58 other nations’ credit ratings

Countries ranking higher on sovereign ratings likely to face more severe downgrades

Gujarat pollution board gets a makeover in efficiency

Xtended Green Node saves time; helps officials monitor industries better

A promising pathway

Rio+20, green economy and India

Green tribunal begins hearing appeal against POSCO steel plant

MoEF says its decision to grant clearance cannot be challenged

Paints from potatoes

Equity for all

News 360° - Briefs

Dying for ration: Tribal beneficiaries of Jharkhand PDS don’t have salt, surviving on plain boiled rice

Ration cards for many cancelled; Landless villagers migrate to city for work

Green Climate Fund turns to developing nations for funds

UN-backed body plans to raise $10-15 billion by end of 2014

Diplomacy deficit

India wavers on including hydrofluorocarbons in Montreal Protocol meet agenda

Sardar Patel statue project has no green clearance: activists

 MoEF asked to declare Statue of Unity project illegal and stop construction

Ban on illegal mining ineffective

It has only increased cost of illegally sourced construction material

NGT raps civic bodies, Delhi Metro for lying on cleaning debris from Yamuna banks

Wants fresh affidavits by May 7

Colours of Nature

An organisation in Mumbai documents the presence of dyeing pigments in microbes and plants

According to Report