Partnership

REC Group and Maxwell Technologies enter into a significant equipment supply agreement.

Maxwell Technologies and REC Group have inked a significant equipment supply agreement. The deal includes the provision of hardware for REC’s most recent heterojunction technology …

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Air Pollution and Climate Change Need People-led Action

In our interactions with informal workers in rural and urban contexts, we have heard many accounts about both increased work stress and job and income …

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Sixty to seventy percent of children in Bengaluru who breathe poor air get lung diseases.

The “Silicon Valley of India,” Bengaluru, is still praised for its lush vegetation. Due to the cold climatic condition throughout the year it was formerly known as “air-conditioned city.  Environmentalists, however, worry that poor air quality has put the much desired city in great risk. According to experts, Bengaluru’s air quality is not being monitored properly. They indicated that between 25,000 and 30,000 trees have been felled in Bengaluru over the previous five years. Therefore, the vegetation that would filter out the dangerous components from air is lost. A.N. Yallappa Reddy, an environmentalist and former bureaucrat, told IANS that Bengaluru has some of the worst air quality in the world. About 60 to 70 per cent of kids have lung-related issues. They are given steroids, …

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IIT Mandi researchers use microwaves to recycle polymer composites to make wind turbine blades

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi have used microwaves to recycle polymer composites to make wind turbine blades. The developed method is rapid, sustainable, and eco-friendly compared to …

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