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If 2010 was a bad year for environmentalists, it was a really bad year for climate scientists. Just a couple of months after the Climategate controversy broke — featuring thousands of hacked emails that reflected badly, to say the least, on the climate scientists who wrote them — critics showed that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had made several mistakes in its most recent assessment on climate science. The worst error — or at least the most embarrassing — was a the panel’s claim that warming could…

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CHANDIGARH: Haryana has been awarded the first National Award in the best states category for its excellent performance in the Energy Conservation Programmes for the year 2010 by the Government of India. With this award, Haryana has become the only State in the country to have bagged the National Award for Energy Conservation for three consecutive years. The award was received by B.S. Yadav, Additional Director, Renewable Energy Department Haryana and HAREDA from Union Power Minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde at the National Energy Conservation Day function organized by the…

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Littering causes serious ill effects on the atmosphere. They add up to become pollutants and causes adverse impact on the atmosphere. They also cause serious illness to animals when they consume poisonous things on the ground!

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In 2006 the filmmaker Chris Paine had an unexpected hit with the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, which detailed how General Motors abandoned its potentially revolutionary EV1 electric. Well, it could be time for a sequel. 2010 will go down as the year that the long-promised electric vehicles finally hit dealer showrooms. From GM’s much-anticipated plug-in Volt to Nissan’s all-electric Leaf, electric cars from mainstream auto manufacturers are now being produced and sold in real numbers. Electrics are still expensive and range-limited, and real expansion will require a network…

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Emissions have become a major threat to the life of earth! Cycling is one of the easy options available to tackle the problem. With raising fuel costs, cycling will also help in cutting down expenses of fuel!

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The recession happened for any number of reasons — and I’m an environmental reporter, damn it, not a business reporter — but its undeniable that the U.S. went on a spending spree. That had negative impacts on our national wallet, but it also has a negative environmental effect — all that stuff builds up. That’s why the trend towards “collaborative consumption” — technology-enabled sharing and renting of goods — is one of the most heartening environmental trends. Startups like Swap.com allow users to arrange trades of books, movies and CDs,…

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MUMBAI – India is on track to add 1.1 gigawatt of grid-connected solar-power generation capacity by 2013, as part of its target to reach 20 gigawatt of solar power by 2022, Renewable Energy Secretary Deepak Gupta said Monday. The South Asian nation has set an ambitious target for solar energy generation – which at present only accounts for a small portion of the country’s power portfolio – to help cut down carbon emissions, trim peak-hour power shortages and bring electricity to millions of rural households. “The solar mission has several…

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