DTNZ: India produced over a billion tons of coal in 2024-25

The South Asian nation plans to further increase domestic production, the coal and mines minister has said.

India has produced over a billion tons of coal in 2024-25, Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy said on Monday.

Ross Meurant: Simple Solution for Green Environment?

More than 65 countries have already announced that they will achieve carbon neutrality between 2045 and 2060. Greta will be pleased.

How this is going to happen however, ranges from country to country and replacing promises with deeds, may not be as simple applauding a speaker at an Environment Conference.

For the moment I put to the side, the politics of East v West interfering in transmission of environmentally friendly natural gas from Russia to Germany via North Stream under (Baltic) sea pipelines, which America seeks to block in favour of Europe buying more expensive America liquified gas notwithstanding the attendant environmental damage created by shipping this product across the Atlantic. In this article I address alternatives.

NZCPR Weekly: Questions of Credibility

Dear NZCPR Reader,   

This week we raise questions over the Prime Minister’s credibility including over policy decisions regarding green hydrogen, freshwater regulations, and the teaching of New Zealand history in schools, our NZCPR Guest Commentator Michael Coote shares a tribute to New Zealand’s first Governor, Captain William Hobson, who died 177 years ago this week, and our poll asks whether Maori tribal groups should be involved in decision-making over the control of fresh water.

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