13th June 2016 - Ecologise

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Video: Rapper Sofia Ashraf takes down Dow Chemicals for the Bhopal tragedy

13th June 2016

Scroll.in reports: Sofia Ashraf, the artist behind the Kodaikanal Won’t video (bottom) in 2015 has a new video out. Dow Vs Bhopal: A Toxic Rap Battle describes the US Government’s complete blanking out of the Bhopal tragedy, when a poisonous gas leak from a Union Carbide plant led to the death of some 16,000 people….

Pandurang Hegde: Killing the environment on the altar of greed

In his recent monthly address on radio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “there’s close linkage between drought and environmental degradation and there’s a need for a mass movement to save forests and to conserve every drop of water.” The statement does recognise the problem but do the government’s policies and its implementation reflect these concerns?…

The largest increase in global CO2 emissions from energy use in 2015 came from India

The 2016 edition of BP’s authoritative Statistical Review of World Energy offers some startling revelations. According to the report, India’s share in global coal consumption exceeded 10% in 2015, for the first time ever, while its oil consumption too set an all-time record. India also registered the largest increase in carbon emissions from energy use….

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Video: Rapper Sofia Ashraf takes down Dow Chemicals for the Bhopal tragedy

Pandurang Hegde: Killing the environment on the altar of greed

The largest increase in global CO2 emissions from energy use in 2015 came from India