Oslo (AFP) May 29, 2014 - A Greenpeace ship arrived Thursday at the Arctic site where Statoil is sending an oil rig in an attempt to stop the drilling, the environmental group said.
Washington (AFP) May 29, 2014 - US President Barack Obama wants to force coal energy plants to reduce emissions and pay for greenhouse gases they do emit through a cap and trade system, the New York Times said Thursday.
Madrid (AFP) May 29, 2014 - The Spanish government on Thursday gave oil giant Repsol the green light to explore for oil and gas off the coast of the Canary Islands, a move that environmental groups described as unjustifiable.
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2014 - The great hype surrounding the advent of a shale gas bonanza in California may turn out to be just that: hype. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) - the statistical arm of the Departmen
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 28, 2014 - Tecnalia has collaborated in a study for the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA) on the future use of methanol, produced from carbon dioxide, in motorised tr
Brussels (AFP) May 28, 2014 - The European Commission laid out plans Wednesday to cut the EU's costly reliance on energy imports, especially from Russia which has threatened to halt gas supplies to Ukraine, a key transit point for Europe.
Norwich, UK (SPX) May 28, 2014 - The bright yellow fields of oilseed rape are a familiar sight at this time of year, but for scientists what lies beneath is just as exciting. Researchers at the Institute of Food Research are lookin
Tripoli (AFP) May 28, 2014 - A rogue Libyan ex-general resumed air strikes on jihadists in the city of Benghazi Wednesday, while gunmen attacked an interior ministry team in Tripoli tasked with protecting the outgoing government.
Southampton, UK (SPX) May 28, 2014 - Scientists from the University of Southampton, in collaboration with the Universities of Sheffield and Crete, have developed a new hybrid energy transfer system, which mimics the processes responsib
Beijing, China (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources in the world today. Dr. Hui Hu and his group at Iowa State University studied the effects of the relative rotation directions of t
Argonne IL (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a previously unknown phase in a class of superconductors called iron arsenides. This sheds light on a debate
The Hague (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Dutch police on Tuesday arrested six activists as Greenpeace staged two protests in northern Europe including chaining a Russian contracted oil rig to a dock, to highlight oil drilling in the eco-sensitive Arctic oceans.
The Hague (AFP) May 27, 2014 - Greenpeace activists boarded two oil rigs in northern Europe Tuesday to protest against reckless plans by multinational companies to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic.
Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2014 - A major gas deal between Russia and China could finally be sealed this week when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits China on May 20-21 and meets with President Xi Jinping. In the lead up to Put
Austin TX (SPX) May 27, 2014 - Skyonic has announced that it has secured an additional $12.5 million in funding from existing investor ConocoPhillips and new investor Enbridge Canada's largest energy infrastructure company. The f
Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2014 - Turning the hydrogen economy concept into a reality, even on a small scale, has been a bumpy road, but scientists are developing a novel way to store hydrogen to smooth out the long-awaited transi
