Utkarsha A Singh, PhD

With the population growing by about 1% each year, the demand for fuels like oil, natural gas and coal is also ever-increasing in India. Entire economies survive on these non-renewable sources of energy. But what would happen to power and fertiliser industries, which solely rely on these fuels, as Indian natural gas reserves are used up? In a new study, researchers have tried to understand the consumption and production trends of natural gas in India and the effect of depletion of domestically-p

Vehicular exhaust is a significant cause of air pollution in India, resulting in the rise of many fatal respiratory illnesses. With 249 million registered vehicles that contribute to growing levels of air pollution, India faces a hazy future. A solution to this problem seems to be ‘urban greening’ or planned plantation of trees within cities, as evidenced by a study of 55 cities in the United States, which helped remove 7 lakh metric tonnes of air pollutants annually.

Urban greening could invol