Saudi Arabia's Four Seasons Riyadh is an iconic tower of the Middle East. Currently, the country has been pushing to expand their tourism industry, and constructing a resort city called Neom over the coast of Red Sea. It will be called Hotel 12, for European clientele and Ummahat AlShaykh in Arabic.
As the need for a clean fuel source grows, researchers have turned to small pellets of compressed wood. They are harvested from pine and hardwood tree forests in the South American South. After being collected they are dried, compressed, and converted into pellets that are as long as an inch. They are combusted as fuel in electric power plants, mainly in the United Kingdom and Europe, to supply power to homes and businesses.
The tribal community residing in Gujarat’s Tapi district had organized a bicycle in October to spread awareness among people about the harmful repercussions of a zinc smelter to be established in Doswada village. Back in October, Vedanta Group’s Hindustan Zinc Limited (HZL) agreed on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government to set up the smelting plant, supposedly HZL’s largest. It is claimed to have a capacity of producing 300 kilo tonnes of zinc ingots a year. The ingots are used for galvanising steel for its protection from corrosion and for producing alloys.
A waste management company, based in London has announced today its plans to grow the “world’s biggest” single-site energy from waste (EfW) decarbonisation initiative. The enterprise by the name Cory intends to establish CCS technology at its current facility which has a capacity of about 750,000 tonnes capacity. The new plant is expected to be operational by 2026 in Belvedere, southeast London.
Satellite imagery data depicted a rise of 74015 in the farm fires between September 1 to November 16 in Punjab. This has been the highest since 2016. NASA's VIIRS-SNPP satellite reported the number of fires in 2016 as 84886.
A species diversity expert from Colorado State University claimed in his research study that maintaining a genetic variability in the population of species is essential to help them adapt to the environment. The changing climate can only be survived by plants or animals if their genetic makeup is strong.
Environment Minister of Delhi, Gopal Rai will head a high-level meeting of departments regarding the latest directions given by the Commission of Air Quality Management to curb air pollution.
Ever since the decision on Article 6 of the Paris agreement was taken at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, a new opportunity for investments and market expansion has unfolded in the carbon reduction projects around the world. The COP26 summit's conclusion provides the tools needed for an active, accountable and transparent carbon market, giving governments the authority to trade emissions reductions in a more flexible way. This will facilitate a more diverse way in controlling the countries' emissions on a national level.
As winter approaches pollution the AQI spikes high every year. But currently the air quality is alarming with a 'severe' condition declared. In desperate measures, Delhi Government today declared to the Supreme Court that they will consider imposing a complete lockdown in Delhi to control the extreme air pollution.
The latest report published by the World Meteorological Department reveals that India lost over 87 billion dollars due to the destruction caused by natural calamities last year. The report titled ‘State of the Climate in Asia’ released on Tuesday mentioned that annual tropical cyclones, floods, and droughts cause a drastic loss of several hundred billion dollars to the nation.
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