Tallinn (AFP) Sept 24, 2012 - An oil tanker ran aground off the Estonian capital Tallinn early Monday, but there was no threat of pollution from the vessel, police in the Baltic state said.
Taipei (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 - Taiwan accused China on Wednesday of breaching international law by deploying oil and gas exploration platforms and other structures in its waters.
Taipei (AFP) Sept 28, 2011 - Authorities in Taiwan said Wednesday they had changed more than 690,000 traffic lights throught the island in a project that will save enough electricity to power more than 60,000 homes.
Taipei (AFP) Sept 3, 2008 - Taiwan called Wednesday for expansion in cooperation on oil exploration and development with China amid warming ties between the two rivals.
Yeiliu, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 13, 2010 - Anti-Japanese activists Monday set sail for a disputed island chain in the East China Sea after alleging that government interference had forced them to scale down their protest voyage.
Nicosia (AFP) Sept 1, 2021 - An oil slick spreading from a Syrian power plant pulled away from the breakaway north of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Wednesday thanks to shifting winds.
Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2013 - Switzerland and a handful of countries in Europe led the way in a global ranking Tuesday of energy efficiency, access to resources and environmental sustainability.
Geneva (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - Switzerland will inaugurate on Saturday a new mountain refuge in the Alps that looks more like a futuristic space station than the no-frills stonewall huts that alpinists are more familiar with.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 28, 2020 - A planned major expansion of Scandinavia's largest oil refinery, fiercely opposed by environmental activists, was scrapped Monday, Swedish oil company Preem said.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 18, 2011 - A recent oil spill near the Sweden's southwest coast is the worst in the area in years and the clean up will take weeks, the Swedish coast guard said Sunday.
West Bethlehem Township, United States (AFP) Sept 13, 2024 - For Pennsylvania farmer George Wherry, 85, fracking for natural gas under his otherwise bucolic fields means greater economic freedom - one of the many reasons he'll be voting for Donald Trump in November.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 4, 2020 - Sudan and a key rebel group that had refused to join other opposition forces in a previous peace deal have signed their own agreement, officials on both sides said Friday.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 2, 2020 - Sudan said Wednesday that government and rebel leaders had met to begin implementing a deal that aims to end a war in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed.
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 1, 2020 - Sudan's premier Abdalla Hamdok said Tuesday that a peace accord with rebel groups paved the way for national rebuilding by overcoming the grievances of deadly conflicts under ousted president Omar al-Bashir.
Reno NV (SPX) Sep 29, 201 - Like the little engine that could, the University of Nevada, Reno experiment to transform wastewater sludge to electrical power is chugging along, dwarfed by the million-gallon tanks, pipes and pumps at the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility where, ultimately, the plant's electrical power could be supplied on-site by the process University researchers are developing.
New York (AFP) Sept 16, 2014 - The world can save both financial and environmental costs by shifting toward a low-carbon economy over the next 15 years, a high-level panel said Tuesday ahead of a UN summit.
