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Mexico: State-owned oil company admits releasing huge methane plume
Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos oil company acknowledged on Thursday it released a huge plume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Gulf of Mexico late last year. A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters estimated that the leak contained about 40,000 tons of methane. The article estimated that would be equivalent to releasing about 3.3 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The gas release came in December when one of the company's oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico stopped flaring, or burning off oil well gases. The company, known as Pemex, claimed the gases escaped unburned for a few hours. Researchers said it happened over a period of over two weeks. Petroleos Mexicanos acknowledged Thursday that the leak occurred accidentally after winds and rains extinguished flames meant to burn off the gas. But the company said only 22 per cent of the gas release was methane, and the
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Australia's Woodside to invest $10 mn in methane recycling firm String Bio
The investment is a part of Woodside's goal to spend $5 billion on new energy and low-carbon services by 2030, in line with a global push for cleaner energy
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Maruti Suzuki betting on hybrids over electric vehicles in clean shift
India's shift to electric vehicles is also much slower than other major markets like China and the US even though PM has committed to making India a net-zero carbon-emitting nation by 2070
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Satellite spots huge amount of methane emissions from Russian coal mine
A private company said that it detected one of the largest artificial releases of methane ever seen, coming from a coal mine in Russia
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Unreasonable terms
New environment index is not objective
Inconvenient questions
How do I explain the global media powerhouses need to get real about the impacts of climate change on countries like India - my country?
Vedanta to modify design of waste heat recovery plant in Goa
This is in line with Vedanta's efforts towards reducing the carbon footprint
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What is fast fashion and is it a cause for concern?
Did you know that the global textile industry emits more greenhouse gas than those from shipping and international air travel combined? The emergence of fast fashion has played a big role in it
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World's oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, says climate report
The water bodies absorb around 90% of the Earth's accumulated heat and 23% of the carbon dioxide emissions from human activity.
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Climate Change: Greenhouse gas, sea level rise set new records in 2021
Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification set new records in 2021 with extreme weather led to hundreds of billions of dollars in losses, a new report said
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Canada advancing small nuclear reactors to reduce greenhouse emissions
According to the Canadian Nuclear Association, about 15 percent of Canada's electricity comes from nuclear power, with 19 reactors mostly in Ontario providing 13.5 GWe of power capacity.
China launches campaign to plug greenhouse gas emissions monitoring gap
China will force key industrial sectors and regions to take action to measure greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new initiative to improve data quality and oversight
China car sector falling short of 2060 'net zero' goals: Greenpeace
Country needs to bring zero emissions vehicle sales to 63% by 2030 and 87% by 2035 if it is to meet its targets, says environmental group.
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2021 sixth hottest year on record, last 8 years the warmest, says NASA
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and NOAA.
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Govt invites bids to set up sales network for natural gas supply
India, the world's third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has set a 2070 goal for net zero carbon emissions.
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Nations reach climate agreement after India forces compromise on coal use
Change promoted by India commits to "phase down," rather than "phase out" coal power, the single biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Explained: Can world's climate target and India's development coexist?
No country's energy needs are expected to grow faster in coming decades than India's
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Whose net zero future?
India is in a fortunate position in that almost every action to improve productivity and equity will be carbon reducing
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Shipping industry's zero-emission trials
The key to achieving reduction of emissions is development of alternate fuels by the oil industry
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Greenhouse gas build-up reached new high in 2020: United Nations
UN weather agency warns the world is 'way off track' on reaching goals for capping rising temperatures
