Wind and solar slaughtering India’s iconic bird
By commissioning expensive and inefficient wind and solar electric generating facilities, India may have dug the grave of its own efforts to save the critically endangered great Indian bustard.
By commissioning expensive and inefficient wind and solar electric generating facilities, India may have dug the grave of its own efforts to save the critically endangered great Indian bustard.
Rhetoric aside, China and India are all in on coal.
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan worked alongside Norman Borlaug to turn India into an agricultural haven
Meanwhile China, India, even Indonesia are investing massively in coal.
Though countless legal challenges have proved to be major hurdles in India, some states are showing signs of readiness to embrace high yield crops.
“People are getting clean water and a lot of families are getting benefits from the new water well,” Ghodke said.
Not all gloom and doom.
As part of CFACT’s international Stewardship in Action program, CFACT funded a freshwater well in Dhorkin Shekta village in India.
Coal use in power plants around the world is increasing and we have the numbers to prove it.
China and India's stockings are full of coal... and they're loving it!
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