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Google pips Facebook to acquire solar-powered drone maker Titan AerospaceBy : Sustainability ..., Apr 15, 2014
Looks like Facebook’s plans to get Internet-delivering drones on board has come up against a slight obstacle: Google. Google has beaten the world’s largest social network to purchase solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace as the search giant ramps up plans to... Read more.. |
Madras HC cautions govts against 'privatizing' drinking water servicesBy : Sustainability ..., Feb 16, 2014
Cautioning governments against privatizing fundamental sovereign responsibilities such as providing drinking water to people, Madras high court has wondered how a company, which dragged Bolivia into international arbitration over privatization of drinking water, was involved... Read more.. |
Supreme Court stays environment ministry's move to allow mining without green nodBy : Sustainability ..., Jan 28, 2014
NEW DELHI: In what could halt many mining activities, the Supreme Court on Monday stayed a ministry of environment and forests notification permitting mining in forest areas for two years without clearances under Forest Conservation Act and Environment Protection Act. ... Read more.. |
Contaminated water proves a quiet killerBy : Sustainability ..., Jan 24, 2014
BANGALORE: In the first two weeks of May 2011, more than 30 persons took ill due to water contamination in Bangalore's Dasarahalli zone. A year earlier, Mudda Gangamma, 62, of Doddaballapur died after consuming filthy water. Death due to water contamination is nothing new... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster |
DU team claims to have developed a solution for chromium pollutionBy : Sustainability ..., Jan 22, 2014
NEW DELHI: The Green Chemistry Network Centre (GCNC) of Delhi University has claimed to have developed a solution for chromium pollution from tanneries. In a recently concluded workshop on sustainability and water quality, the DU team presented a polymer (chemical compound... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster , Technology |
Chemical pollution linked to infection, bladder cancerBy : Sustainability ..., Jan 14, 2014
The unchecked discharge of chemical waste into Yamuna from industries in Haryana is threatening to wash away the gains made by Delhi over a decade after industrial units in the city were closed or relocated. Experts say the pollutants are causing water toxicity and illnesses... Read more.. |
Global temperatures to rise 4 degrees by 2100By : Sustainability ..., Jan 1, 2014
Global average temperatures will rise at least 4 degrees celsius by 2100 and potentially more than 8 degrees by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced, a new research has warned. Scientists found global climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than most... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster , Technology |
India among high risk nations in water stress surveyBy : Sustainability ..., Dec 17, 2013
India ranks 41 among 181 countries so far as water stress is concerned and its in the bracket of second high risk nations. The first-ever global water stress rankings by World Resource Institute (WRI) reveals that 37% countries assessed by it experience high to extremely... Read more.. |
UN climate talks shun carbon budget shareout as too radicalBy : Sustainability ..., Nov 22, 2013
Governments are shying away from their own warnings that the world has only a fast-shrinking budget of carbon emissions left to use to avoid damaging global warming, frightened off at U.N. climate talks by the radical cuts it would require. To keep warming to a level... Read more.. |
India to Invest $1.8 Billion in Village Water SuppliesBy : Sustainability ..., Oct 15, 2013
India, where 200,000 children four and under die yearly of diseases caused by dirty water, plans to spend 110 billion rupees ($1.8 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2014 to improve village water supplies. That’s an almost 5 percent increase from a year earlier... Read more.. Subject Tags: Disaster |