Earth Times: Flecks of soot from a smoky open stove in India blacken more than just the roofs of the hut it is smoldering in. Fine particles of such smoke lodge deep in the lungs of women preparing meals, gifting them a dark scourge of ill-health and premature death. That same black soot floats higher into the air, where it helps to change the way clouds form – and so to warm the climate. Some specks may even end up coating ice in the frozen extremes of the planet, dulling their pristine surfaces, and hastening the melt of glaciers and ice-caps.

 Clean stoves could save lives and maybe the climate too

Telegraph: And why?” my wife Lucy demanded yesterday as she peeled off her gardening gloves, “are my clematis and roses in full bloom on November 1, and why am I still being bitten by gnats and midges?” Standing in shirt sleeves and muddy-kneed cords, brandishing a pair of secateurs, she sounded cross. “I’m supposed to be putting the garden to bed for the winter, not admiring summer flowers and swatting bugs.”

 Climate change affects the seasons: autumn doesn’t know if it’s coming or going

AMRITSAR: A ban on cars on pilgrimage routes, provision of fresh water for pilgrims, and planting of thousands of trees around sacred sites – these were some of the initiatives which the founder members of the Green Pilgrimage Network pledged to implement at Assisi, informed project manager, EcoSikh, Ravneet Singh on Sunday.

 Green Pilgrimage Network aim for car-free routes

New Delhi: Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world’s largest miner of the fuel, will use satellite technology to prevent shipments from being hijacked amid a shortage that has hit supplies to thermal power projects across the country.

The move by the government to curb theft in transit comes as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) administration fights charges of inefficiency and corruption.

 Coal India to use GPS to stop pilferage

“The world is watching G20’s steps to tackle financial instability emanating from eurozone periphery”

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told leaders meeting in this southern French resort town on Thursday that the entire world was watching and that “our summit will be judged by our ability to deal with financial instability emanating from the eurozone periphery.”

Focus on structural reform PM-04 November 2011, The Hindu

 

New Delhi: China’s Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock Co. Ltd (TBEA), a maker of high-voltage transformers, has signed a preliminary accord with the Gujarat government to set up a manufacturing facility in the state with an initial investment of $100 million.

China’s TBAE in deal to build Gujarat factory

Tamil Nadu will soon come out with a renewable energy policy that will feature ambitious targets and several innovative features, M. Velmurugan, Executive Chairman, Tamil Nadu Industrial Guidance Bureau, said on Thursday.

Ambitious renewable energy policy on the anvil

 

India looks set to keep searching for overseas coal. Though the country has the world’s fourth largest reserves, environmental restrictions mean production is struggling to keep up with demand from coal-hungry power stations. That explains why Indian firms like Aditya Birla Group, which is considering a bid for Australia’s $5 billion New Hope, are gobbling up overseas acquisitions.

India’s quest for foreign coal looks here to stay

SAN FRANCISCO: From the cotton field in rural India to the local rag bin, a typical pair of blue jeans consumes 919 gallons of water during its life cycle, Levi Strauss & Company says, or enough to fill about 15 spa-size bathtubs. That includes the water that goes into irrigating the cotton crop, stitching the jeans together and washing them scores of times at home.

Denims go green: Now, jeans washed with rocks, not water

COPENHAGEN: Prosperous countries have not lived up to their promises to help the poor, the UN declared Wednesday, saying poor people often go hungry because of polluted water, drought and other environmental factors that are increasing poverty.

Water pollution, drought threaten world’s poor: UN