Carbon

India’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Is Here Stay & Flourish

September 3, 2022

India’s First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Is Here To Stay & Flourish

India’s first indigenously designed Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus developed by KPIT-CSIR in Pune to reduce carbon emissions has been launched. Comparatively a single diesel bus emits almost 100 tons of CO2 per

Nature

Peatlands, The Terrestrial Carbon Sinks Of The Planet – India & Africa

Mire or Peatland is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Peatlands arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and deprived oxygen. All types of mires share the common characteristic of

March 12, 2022

Nature’s Plastic Recycling Bacteria : How Comamonas Testosteroni Could Solve Our Plastic Crisis

Plastic·Pollution·Science

A bacteria that “eats” plastic has been uncovered by the researchers. The quantity of plastic produced every year is more than 380 million tons.

GE’s Quest for Sustainable Carbon Capture Solutions: From Air to Solution

Climate·Pollution

Today the younger generation is vocal, demanding change, & more environmentally conscious than ever before. For fighting climate change, GE Research in Niskayuna has

Workers installing solar panels on a commercial rooftop with mountains visible in the background.

Climate·Energy·Sustainability·USA

California Needs 170 GW New Power and 54 GW Storage by 2045 to Reach Net-Zero, Stanford Study Shows

California can reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, but it faces major hurdles in scaling technologies and cutting through regulatory red tape, according to a new Stanford University study. The research

Govind Tekale

September 29, 2025

Snow-covered coniferous forest landscape in winter showing dense stands of evergreen trees blanketed in white snow under overcast sky.

Climate·Europe·News

Sweden, Finland Warn of “Dire Consequences” as EU Forest Rules Risk 200,000 Jobs, Timber Supplies

Sweden and Finland have sent a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asking for changes to EU climate rules that limit timber harvesting. The Nordic leaders warn that

Govind Tekale

September 18, 2025

Black exhaust smoke billowing from a yellow bus with license plate CC 067 against a gray road surface

Climate·News·USA

EPA to End Greenhouse Gas Reporting: ‘$2.4B Savings’ vs ‘Blinds Americans to Climate Facts,’ Critics Say

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced plans to eliminate its Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), a system that has tracked carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from over 8,000 industrial

Govind Tekale

September 14, 2025

Pierre Poilievre talking with Dominion Diving workers in high-visibility vests inside a marine construction facility.

Canada·Energy·Politics

Poilievre: ‘CFR is Carbon Tax 2.0’ as PBO Shows Rural Communities Bear Heaviest Burden

Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations are generating political debate about economic effects on Canadians. In a press conference, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre labeled the CFR “Carbon Tax 2.0,” claiming additional costs for households

Sunita Somvanshiand

Govind Tekale

August 29, 2025

Aerial view of an asphalt production facility with blue equipment, storage silos, and aggregate stockpiles at a COLAS Australia site.

Climate·Materials

Colorado Researchers Create First-of-Kind Carbon Benchmarking for Asphalt: “Already Being Used by CDOT”

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a new way to measure and reduce carbon emissions in road construction. The team developed a process to set carbon limits for asphalt

Govind Tekale

August 28, 2025

Agriculture

Yale’s 10% Sampling Method Enhances Soil Carbon Measurement Accuracy

Scientists at Yale have found a practical way to measure how much carbon farmland actually stores, potentially transforming how we track and reward climate-friendly farming practices. This breakthrough could make carbon credit

Govind Tekale

February 9, 2025

Energy

U.S. Tightens CO₂ Pipeline Safety After 2020 Mississippi Leak

The U.S. government is strengthening safety rules for carbon dioxide (CO₂) pipelines – the networks that transport captured carbon underground to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These new rules come after a serious

Sunita Somvanshi

January 18, 2025

Representative Image. Road Construction. Photo Source: Eurovia UK (YouTube)

Materials

Worcestershire Cuts 74% CO₂ with £8M RECOFOAM® Footways Made from 97% Recycled Material

Worcestershire’s streets are getting an eco-friendly makeover with RECOFOAM®, an innovative material that’s changing how we build our footways. As someone who’s watched sustainable construction evolve over the years, I can tell

Karmactive Staff

November 23, 2024

Energy·Science

Methanol Production Advances with PRIME-Fuel Microreactor Leveraging CO2 and Renewable Energy

A transformative initiative in renewable energy innovation is initiated by the PRIME-Fuel project. The new fuel is developed by the University of Houston (UH) and SRI International. The project focuses on creating

Sunita Somvanshi

November 19, 2024

The reactor is made up of a cathode set up to perform oxygen reduction, an oxygen evolution reaction-performing anode and a compact yet porous solid-electrolyte layer that allows efficient ion conduction. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Pollution·Science

CO2 Capture at 98% Efficiency: Rice Engineers Develop Low-Energy Device for Emission Control at the Flip of a Switch

As COP29 is in progress at Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, there is happy news for lovers of nature. Rice University engineers have developed a new technology to lower the cost of capturing

Rahul Somvanshi

November 16, 2024

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