A monthly dispatch on issues surrounding coal-based power plants, air pollution, climate change, and the environment. Brings you the news that will keep you engaged, updated and part of the movement on climate action.
Part two of a three-part introductory series on the science of geoengineering that is being portrayed as a technological fix to counteract the pernicious effects of climate crisis.
Part one of a three-part introductory series on the science of geoengineering that is being portrayed as a technological fix to counteract the pernicious effects of climate crisis.
At the start of this decade, when Tamil Nadu was reeling under an acute shortage of power, capacity addition to the tune of 50 GW was proposed. This report looks at the status of the proposed plants and finds that only one of them has been…
In this last part of a two-part article, we will explore solutions for control and reduction of ground-level ozone.
In our last issue, we looked at the harmful impacts of ground-level ozone to humans, plants, and other animals. Because ozone…
In our last issue, we looked at how different sectors contribute to pollutants in the air we breathe, of which ozone is one of the major pollutants. Ozone is a gas that is present in Earth’s upper atmosphere (stratosphere), where it protects all…
We live in such times where the same air that sustains life holds agents of death and disease as well, and the concentrations of the latter are increasing. Ambient air pollution is a major threat to the health and wellbeing of the global…
On January 10 2019, India had her first ever national programme to address the air pollution issue, released by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC). Considering the exigency and the magnitude of air…
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 24 (COP24) was held in the coal mining city of Katowice, Poland, from December 2 to 14, 2018. The negotiations at COP24 were billed the most important…
Determining the performance of a power plant can be a complex topic to understand, given the various factors such as availability of fuel/water, installed capacity, the age of the unit, planned outage etc, at play. A brief understanding of different…
In our last issue, we explored the detrimental effect of coal-fired power plants on the local aquatic and marine ecosystems1. We also delved into how the discharges from coal-fired power plants affect fish health and human livelihoods and health as…