Environment

Whitest of white elephants: USD1 trillion could be unnecessarily splurged on new coal-fired plants

Investments are pouring in for 1500 plants, but these are likely to be wasted.

Whitest of white elephants: USD1 trillion could be unnecessarily splurged on new coal-fired plants

Investments are pouring in for 1500 plants, but these are likely to be wasted.

Google sets eyes on buying more renewables for its data centers in Asia

It revealed funding for resource solution centre in Taiwan.

India's aggressive renewables growth scares coal-fired power generators

Power surplus will grip India by the neck in 5-7 years.

Analysts brace themselves for a likely conflict to spark from Mekong River's hydro potential

More aggressive protests against building more dams are being feared.

"Is Paris burning?": Looking anew at the significance of the Paris Climate Change Agreement

While that question hung over the last days of World War II, on December 2015 the world media definitely projected a cheerful resolution for the...

Japan, Korea stubbornly cling to coal despite global climate deal

At least 60 new plants are being planned over the next decade.

Humans, machines, and outcomes

On occasion of a Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident book-release1 event organised by a well-educated, secluded community in the Santa Ynez...

Nuclear energy still needed to achieve ambitious global climate agreement

Will Asian governments be ready to join the nuke bandwagon?

India's coal-fired Parli thermal power plant shuts down

Blame it on the dry spell plaguing the area.