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In the near future, Goa could avail of funds under the national agriculture innovation project to tide over instances of saline water entering agricultural land. The project, which is aimed at making farming more resilient to climate change, could also apply to the state as salinity in its seven ...

Greenpeace has launched an effort to pressure Facebook to stop polluting with coal, but Facebook counters by saying its newest data center will be a model energy efficiency.

On Wednesday, Greenpeace executive director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter sent to Facebook CEO Mar...

 Thousands of people living near the mountain evacuated their homes to stay in government-provided shelters. 

CHANDIGARH: Now, a 'green candle' that does not pollute. A Punjab-based company, the country's largest producer, processor and exporter of honey, will soon launch candles from bee wax, a byproduct for bee-keepers.

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NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Tuesday launched a battery-operated rickshaw, "E-rick", sponsored by cellular services provider Vodafone Essar, to promote eco-friendly transportation in the city ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Priced at 1.5 lakh, the compan...

Barstow Community College is joining with several local organizations to help laid-off workers start new careers.

This summer, the college has accepted 15 people into the Electrical for Green Technology Fundamentals program, which was made possible through a $113,500 grant ...

Recently, disaster struck all 53 families of the Chellipadam village in a Kochi suburb, when nearly 25 lorries, all carrying stinking garbage from the city rolled in with heavy police escort and dumped decaying garbage in their midst. ...

In a world crying out to make the earth a greener place, the new buzzword is reducing each individual's carbon footprint. Simply put, it means reducing the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO2) that each person produces and contributes to the environmen...

 Football fans will be unlikely to notice the difference – Brazil will still be playing in their iconic yellow strip, Portugal's Ronaldo will be garbed in red and the Dutch will, as always, be playing in orange.

DORKING, England: The pickers working their way along the hillside, clipping bunches of small, dark purple grapes from the rows of vines and dropping them into plastic buckets are harbingers of a warmer planet.

In recent years, aided by milder springs and autumns, a few Bri...