-Down to Earth Veteran environmentalist spoke to Down To Earth about the ongoing disaster in Uttarakhand   Since the past one week, a major tragedy has been unfolding in the high Himalayas of Uttarakhand. The historic temple town of Joshimath, the gateway to the shrine of Badrinath, has been witnessing scenes of panic and anger as locals protest the cracks in the area. From houses to temples to commercial establishments, nothing has...

-Factchecker.in/ Scroll.in Minister of New and Renewable Energy RK Singh has informed Parliament that 95% of India’s clean energy target set in 2015 has been achieved. India is short of its installed renewable energy target for 2022 by 32%, as per latest data from the Central Electricity Authority. India’s renewable energy capacity (excluding large hydro Power) has increased by about 66% since 2018. In fact, its non-fossil fuels’ installed capacity has been growing...

-Scroll.in In theory, natural gas is 'cleaner' than coal, but while producing the gas a certain amount of methane ( a greenhouse gas) leaks into the atmosphere. RK Singh, the Union Minister for Power, New and Renewable Energy, said on December 5 that natural gas is just as responsible as coal for global warming, if not more. “In COP26 they added a line, they wanted to add… phase-out of coal. But thereafter India...

-Press released by Christian Aid dated 27 December, 2022 * Study identifies the year’s 10 costliest extreme events influenced by the climate crisis - each caused more than $3 billion in damage. * Report also examines 10 other extreme events that caused massive human and environmental damage, mostly in the poorest countries. * The floods that submerged parts of Pakistan in June displaced 7m people and caused more than $30 billion in estimated...

-The Telegraph In the last three years since the UPA alliance led by Hemant Soren came to Power in December 2019, there has been a sixfold increase in the number of women self-help groups receiving community investment funds Jamshedpur: Sustained drive by the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS) has led to the fruition of emPowerment of the rural economy, a dream of Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren. In the last three years...