Carbon Footprint

Last Updated: March 12, 2024, 15:10 ISTTrack Your Green Ride Impact With Uber's 'Emission Savings' Feature. By keeping riders informed about their environmental impact, Uber aims to encourage positive change and contribute to building more sustainable communities. Uber has rolled out a cool new feature called ‘Emission Savings’ that lets riders keep tabs on how much they’re helping the environment by riding in Uber Green vehicles.This feature shows users exactly how many kilograms of CO2 emissions they’ve saved.Available…

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 Tech giants are racing to ward off a carbon time bomb caused by the massive data centers they're building around the world.A technique pioneered by Google is gaining currency as more power-hungry artificial intelligence comes online: Using software to hunt for clean electricity in parts of the world with excess sun and wind on the grid, then ramping up data center operations there. Doing so could cut carbon and costs. There's an urgent need to figure out how to run data centers in ways that maximize renewable energy…

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled "Our Changing Planet" to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page.Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday.This week: Electric garbage trucks clean up in a variety of ways Hot enough for ya? 2023 shattered planetary heat records Carbon offsets are helping protect B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. Is that sustainable?…

Reported By: Samreen PallLast Updated: December 13, 2023, 10:01 ISTExcon 2023: Volvo CE Unveils India's First Electric Excavator & Future-Ready Innovations. (Photo: Volvo CE)Volvo CE wows at Excon 2023, unveiling India's first electric excavator and eco-friendly machines, pioneering a green shift in construction. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) India hit a big milestone at Excon 2023, the region’s largest Construction Equipment event, by showcasing a bunch of electric machines.They’re on a mission for…

Last Updated: November 27, 2023, 10:00 ISTVolvo: 50 Percent of Vehicles to Ditch Fossil Fuels by 2030, Net Zero Emission Goal by 2040. (Photo: Volvo)Volvo India accelerates towards a greener horizon, aiming for 50 percent non-fossil fuel vehicles by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2040. In a groundbreaking announcement at the Digital Acceleration and Transformation Expo (DATE), Volvo India’s President and Managing Director, Kamal Bali, revealed the company’s ambitious plan to have half of its vehicles powered by…

With the massive growth of the Internet over the past two decades, things have reached a point where everything we do online has an impact on the environment. The concept of ‘carbon footprint' is one that we've all likely heard of and understand already, but sometimes we choose to be blissfully unaware of just how much of an impact even simple tasks such as browsing the Internet or watching an episode of a series on Netflix might have. Fortunately, taking steps in the right direction can start with something as simple as…

Last Updated: July 28, 2023, 17:39 ISTTata Motors (Photo: IANS)Tata Motors have supplied more than 900 electric buses and more than 8 crore kilometers to date to multiple cities in India.Shri Ramalinga Reddy, Hon’ble Minister of Transport, Karnataka, flagged off an electric bus prototype for BMTC by Tata Motors today. Tata Motors along with its subsidiary TML Smart City Mobility Solutions Ltd will supply, operate, and maintain the 921 units for 12 years.Tata Starbus EV is developed indigenously for Bengaluru Metropolitan…

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Animations created by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio include images and videos showing what carbon emissions would look like if they were visible in our atmosphere. The videos of the swirling emissions were released this month—and it looks like a grosser, creepier version of the Northern Lights.Prime Day Ain't That 'Green'The visuals are recreated from 2021 carbon dioxide emissions data, according to NASA. They’re shown as swirls all over the planet and how those emissions progressed from the beginning of 2021 to…