Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have developed a thin, durable and high-tech personal heating patch that could be sewn into clothes to generate heat, while significantly reducing users' electric bill as well as energy waste in buildings.


Personal heating patches could reduce energy waste in buildings


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Actress Yami Gautam has been named the goodwill leader of Super Sniffers campaign initiated by TRAFFIC India along with World Wildlife Fund India (WWF).


Yami becomes goodwill leader for Super Sniffers campaign


Amid increasing volatility in tender issuance, auctions and issues related to GST and safeguard duty, India's solar installations slowed down in the July-September period of 2018, officials said on Sunday.


India's solar installations slowed down in July-Sept period: Experts


A volcano erupted in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Sunday, spewing a column of ash measuring 7.5 km to the sky, a disaster agency official said.


Volcano erupts in Indonesia


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said that the Katowice climate change conference has shown the resilience of the Paris Agreement.


Climate change conference shows Paris Agreement's resilience: UN chief


The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) of Kolkata on Saturday issued a heavy rainfall warning for around 10 districts of West Bengal ahead of the approaching storm.


Heavy rainfall warning issued in Bengal


The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Saturday set the stage for the reopening of the Vedanta's Thoothukudi-based copper smelting plant by setting aside the Tamil Nadu governments order to close it permanently and directed the state pollution control body to pass a fresh order permitting renewal of consent for the copper smelter within three weeks.


NGT orders reopening of Vedanta's Sterlite plant


About 10.5 kgs of elephant tusk was recovered in Bengal and two persons were arrested, an official said on Friday.


Over 10 kg elephant tusk recovered in Bengal


Over 1,000 institutions with managed investments worth $8 trillion have committed to phasing out fossil fuels, says a report.


Over 1,000 institutions to shun fossil fuels


Climate change and ocean change is already happening globally. This can no longer be denied. One degree of global warming has already occurred, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said.


Climate change, ocean change happening: Commonwealth Secretary-General


The World Bank, Canada and Britain on Thursday announced financial, technical and advisory support for developing countries that have decided to transition from coal and accelerate the uptake of cleaner sources of energy.


World Bank, Canada, Britain to assist nations move away from coal


At a time when there is a call for all countries to do more to fight climate change, India is telling the world at the ongoing UN climate negotiations, COP24, that it is in a position to comfortably overachieve its Paris climate change commitments, and will do more.


India will 'overachieve' Paris commitments: Experts


China has demanded the inclusion of sustainable and low-carbon bamboo in the ongoing climate talks as it can provide valuable opportunities for the green development of developing countries along the Belt and Road.


China wants to include bamboo in climate talks


The strategic Srinagar-Jammu highway was closed on Thursday due to fresh snowfall, an official said.


Snowfall shuts Srinagar-Jammu highway


A new initiative, comprising 45 European non-state actors and named Step Up Now, on Thursday set a joint vision for creating a new economy and society that will work quickly and substantially to build a net zero emission Europe by 2050 at the latest.


New EU initiative for net zero emission


At least 13 people were killed due to a flood in Vietnam, authorities said on Thursday.


13 killed in Vietnam flood


As the crucial multilateral climate negotiations by 197 nations draw closer to finale with the possibility of "weak" outcomes, UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday flew back here in an attempt to convince participating countries for evolving a consensus on the Paris rulebook.


UN chief to nudge climate negotiators for Paris rulebook


As the crucial multilateral climate negotiations by 197 nations draw closer to finale with the possibility of "weak" outcomes, UN chief Antonio Guterres is expected to join talks on Wednesday for evolving rules for implementing the Paris agreement.


UN chief expected to attend climate talks


As the crucial two-week long climate negotiations by nearly 200 nation draws closer to culminate, UN's climate chief Patricia Espinosa and other top UN officials making passionate pleas to governments to finish the work they set for themselves and conclude the summit with a strong and effective outcome.


UN's climate chief asks nations to finish talks with strong outcome


BBC's Director General Tony Hall on Tuesday said that the network stands by its 2017 expose of extrajudicial killings by rangers in Kaziranga National Park and that the organisation's previous letters to the Indian government do not constitute an apology.


BBC stands by its 2017 Kaziranga killings expose


India's Gujarat on Tuesday got a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) award for women's leadership with low cost and sustainable technology to tackle storms.

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