Dornadula C
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Solving water crisis of Middle East and North Africa
March 30, 2025, 2:07 PM IST
Centre for strategic and international studies conducted an event on March 11, 2025. This is a discussion anchored by Natasha Hall, senior fellow of CSIS. The topic for this event was “How to overcome the…
March 30, 2025, 2:07 PM IST
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Smart Cities 2
February 16, 2025, 11:15 PM IST
Urban agriculture Terraces garden concept has emerged in large cities (for example Mumbai has implemented this concept over a decade) that utilizes the terrace space for growing vegetables utilizing the organic waste generated by the…
February 16, 2025, 11:15 PM IST
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Smart cities 1
February 9, 2025, 10:26 PM IST
While there is no universal definition of a smart city, it assumes that urban planners and policymakers want to use information and communication technologies to achieve sustainable development and improve quality of life. To a…
February 9, 2025, 10:26 PM IST
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Gall-stones and microplastic
December 13, 2024, 10:17 PM IST
Wonder what is the relationship between them… read on Production of PE-based plastic–poly (ethylene) is processed in a factory to make plastic pellets. The pellets are poured into a reactor, and melted into a thick…
December 13, 2024, 10:17 PM IST
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Fantasy of phasing out oil
April 26, 2024, 11:36 PM IST
Celebrating 50 years of foot print in Houston, Aramco’s U.S. headquarters, Amin H. Nasser, Aramco President and CEO delivered a powerful “cera-week” keynote speech on 18 March 2024. “ It is time to abandon the…
April 26, 2024, 11:36 PM IST
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The CoPs and the climate talks. Are parties serious about the pledges?
November 13, 2023, 11:38 AM IST
Like any other festival season, “CoP” season is also picking up with CoP-28 round the corner, scheduled to be held in Dubai this year, in a country that lives on oil and gas! All of…
November 13, 2023, 11:38 AM IST
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Can we minimize the use of fossil fuels?
November 9, 2023, 2:44 PM IST
“World on track to produce 110% more fossil fuels by 2030: UNEP reads a headline in a popular newspaper today. This is more than what the 1.5°C of warming threshold allows (69%), reports a UNEP…
November 9, 2023, 2:44 PM IST
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Who will power the world
July 26, 2023, 3:06 PM IST
“Batteries recently scored a win at General Motors Co., which said it hoped to phase out gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles from its showrooms worldwide by 2035,” wrote Russell Gold and Ben Foldy in The Wall…
July 26, 2023, 3:06 PM IST
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Green hydrogen
September 22, 2022, 9:56 PM IST
“Hydrogen is a colourless, odourless and insipid gas …,” this is what I studied in my school and college. But now it is not so. Now we have green hydrogen, blue hydrogen and grey hydrogen….
September 22, 2022, 9:56 PM IST
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Urban and hydroponic agriculture
May 27, 2022, 8:47 AM IST
Urban Agriculture (UA) as the name implies, is farming within the urban area/region. With growing population, the land-use pattern is compelling the people and communities to adopt this method for food security. The sustainability of…
May 27, 2022, 8:47 AM IST
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Roadmap to achieve NZE: Case study Turkey
May 3, 2022, 12:50 PM IST
” The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C says ‘net zero’ is a state in which “human activities result in no net effect on the climate system”….
May 3, 2022, 12:50 PM IST
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Humble mineral that transformed the world- Quartz
December 18, 2021, 10:40 PM IST
There is a huge cry in the automobile industry that their profit is plummeting like never seen ever before. One of the reputed new channels in India talks tall about the economics but never cared…
December 18, 2021, 10:40 PM IST
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The NZE tamasha and the CoP 26
November 3, 2021, 11:09 PM IST
Like any other conferences that took place in the past 25 years, CoP 26 is yet another one. “Historically, most climate promises have fared badly. Since negotiations started almost three decades ago, grand promises have…
November 3, 2021, 11:09 PM IST
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The education system in a pandemic situation
June 5, 2021, 11:40 AM IST
Covid 19 Pandemic has made all the educational schools across the world adapt teaching online. Courses are conducted online, examinations are conducted online, assignments are submitted through email. For countries like India, this is a…
June 5, 2021, 11:40 AM IST
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Sci-hub and Alexandra Elbakyan
June 4, 2021, 2:49 PM IST
As a reviewer, I review manuscripts (MS) for 31 top journals like J. Geophysical Research, Desalination, Energy, Allied Geophysics, Renewable and Sustainable and Energy Reviews, etc. Reviewers and Editor and Editorial Board contribute immensely for…
June 4, 2021, 2:49 PM IST
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Carbon dioxide emissions: Natural vs anthropogenic
May 28, 2021, 1:15 PM IST
Degassing of Earth is a continuous process… going on since 4 billion years. This process occurs through volcanoes, both aerial and sub-aerial (below the oceans) and other rock formations buried subsurface. It is difficult to…
May 28, 2021, 1:15 PM IST
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Biomass, black carbon geothermal, and One Belt and One Road!
May 3, 2021, 3:42 PM IST
According to a recent paper published in Energy Policy reports that a biomass resource model developed by a UK-based school shows “that indigenous biomass resources and energy crops could service up to 44% of UK…
May 3, 2021, 3:42 PM IST
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Abandoned oil wells should be an agenda item in climate talks
April 28, 2021, 10:17 PM IST
Now the climate change talks are in the news. This has become a routine game for the countries. Developed economies want the developing economies to cut CO2 emissions, control methane emissions (reduce agricultural activity) and…
April 28, 2021, 10:17 PM IST
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Global food security and the Norwich Research Park
February 11, 2021, 2:44 PM IST
“It is hoped the combined expertise of the city’s scientific community can help counteract stark predictions that yields of major staple foods like grains, fruits and vegetables could decrease by between 3pc and 10 pc…
February 11, 2021, 2:44 PM IST
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Enter the dragon along the Himalayan border
December 26, 2020, 2:20 PM IST
Why China is very keen on having its presence along the entire Himalayan border, extending from Nangaparbat to the Arunachal Pradesh ranges (including Nepal Himalayas)? It is all due to abundant natural resources, metallic, non-metallic,…
December 26, 2020, 2:20 PM IST
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