3+ hour, 23+ min ago  (497+ words) NEW DELHI: Governments are spending billions of dollars subsidizing fertilizers that are increasingly delivering limited productivity gains while contributing to environmental damage, prompting the World Bank to push countries, including India, to rethink how agricultural support is designed. In an…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (419+ words) New Delhi, Feb 28 (PTI) Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers significant potential to help the climate crisis, but its high energy and water requirements could worsen environmental challenges if not managed properly, a senior official of the United Nations (UN) said. In…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (328+ words) (Bloomberg) -- Heavy rains that began Monday night have left dozens dead and caused widespread destruction in southeastern Brazil, exposing a longstanding structural problem of housing in high-risk areas vulnerable to seasonal downpours. Storms in the state of Minas Gerais caused…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (368+ words) There are a lot of interdependencies between power reliability, grid reliability, renewable sourcing and data centres as a whole," Vinod Giri, managing partner'Master Fund at NIIF, told Mint. That cross-sector perspective informed the design of the BOM campus from the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (431+ words) About 12 miles (19 kilometers) of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior's reservation along the shores of Lake Superior. The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 to force the company to remove the section from its land, arguing…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (286+ words) U.S. District Judge Michael J. Truncale in the Eastern District of Texas said in a ruling earlier this month that California Attorney General Rob Bonta cannot claim official immunity in regards to several statements he made, including one in a campaign email…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (209+ words) New Delhi: India's environment minister on Wednesday called for a sharp acceleration in global climate action, urging countries to triple renewable energy capacity and increase adaptation finance. Speaking at the silver jubilee edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS)…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (331+ words) Data centers used for AI model training and deployment require enormous amounts of energy for processing and cooling. The largest U.S. sites consume over a gigawatt (GW) of continuous load, enough power to supply up to 850,000 homes. The planned rapid build-out…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago  (416+ words) OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has a unique argument when it comes to the debate of the amount of energy resources it takes while training AI models. Speaking at an event on Friday, Altman dismissed the resource demands of artificial intelligence,…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (247+ words) NEW DELHI: India recently piloted peer-to-peer power trading that will enable consumers such as households, businesses and farmers who generate renewable energy to directly sell their surplus power to other consumers through digital protocols. Mint examines how digital public infrastructure…...