Sydney (AFP) July 10, 2014 - Australia's conservative government on Thursday suffered a setback when the upper house Senate voted against abolishing a carbon tax, the central platform of its election win last year.
Port Moresby (AFP) July 10, 2014 - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Papua New Guinea Thursday and pledged to continue financial support for the Pacific nation, which is emerging as an important energy source for his country.
Amarillo TX (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - Subsidiaries of E.ON and GE are forming an investment partnership to own and operate Grandview Phase I, a 211-megawattt GE-powered wind farm under construction in the Texas Panhandle. GE Energ
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 09, 2014 - A new biosensor invented at UBC could help optimize bio-refining processes that produce fuels, fine chemicals and advanced materials. It works by sniffing out naturally occurring bacterial networks
Brussels (AFP) July 08, 2014 - A coal-burning power plant in Yorkshire is to receive 300 million euros in EU funds to develop a new way of keeping polluting carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, the EU said Tuesday.
Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Jul 08, 2014 - Water splitting is one of the critical reactions that sustain life on earth, and could be a key to the creation of future fuels. It is a key in the process of photosynthesis, through which plants pr
Pungesti, Romania (AFP) July 07, 2014 - Around 20 Greenpeace activists blocked access to a shale gas exploration site in Romania on Monday, in a third attempt to scupper the drilling operations of US energy group Chevron.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 05, 2014 - Researchers have developed a microfluidic technique for fabricating a new class of metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes inside hollow polymer fibers that are just a few hundred microns in diamete
Emeryville CA (SPX) Jul 05, 2014 - Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have unveiled the first glycosyltransferase clone collection specifically targeted for the study of the biosynth
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 04, 2014 - Before you swat away the next fruit fly, consider instead just how similar its biological complexities are to our own. In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers led by Deborah Kimbrell, Ph.D., a
Berlin (AFP) July 04, 2014 - Germany could ban fracking until at least 2021 and strictly regulate the use of any such technology in future under policy proposals drawn up by the economy and environment ministers.
New York (AFP) July 03, 2014 - General Electric on Thursday said the head of its China business will transfer to France to lead the US company's proposed buyout of Alstom's energy businesses.
Southampton, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Green spaces in towns and cities need extra consideration as they may be damaging buildings in the area, according to new research from the Universities of Southampton and Surrey. When organic chemi
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - The acquisition of the project development company Greenfield Wind gives OX2 the local expertise needed to finance and build high-quality wind farms in Poland. The goal is to expand the company, and
Falmouth MA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Fossil fuel emissions release billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year, which is changing the climate and threatening the sustainability of life on planet Earth. In Brazil, the deman
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Methane is a simple molecule consisting of just one carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms. But that simplicity belies the complex role the molecule plays on Earth-it is an important greenhouse ga
