Washington (AFP) March 20, 2014 - The Pentagon was due to host Saudi Arabia's deputy defense minister for talks Thursday as the two sides try to smooth over differences on US policy towards Iran and Syria.
Madrid (AFP) March 20, 2014 - A Spanish island hopes to become the first in the world fully powered by renewable energy later this year when it launches a new wind and water energy plant, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
Bilbao, Spain (SPX) Mar 19, 2014 - In recent years, mini wind energy has been developing in a spectacular way. According to estimates by the WWEA-World Wind Energy Association, the level of development of the mini wind energy industr
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 19, 2014 - Claims that axing the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (VEET) would provide significant price relief on household electricity bills are both wrong and short-sighted, the Clean Energy Council said.
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2014 - Adding to its recent momentum in ocean energy, Lockheed Martin has announced that it is further advancing the next generation of tidal energy. Lockheed Martin has commenced a contract from global ti
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2014 - According to Reuters , Crimea may nationalize oil and gas assets within its borders belonging to Ukraine, and sell them off to Russia. Crimea's Deputy Prime Minister hinted at the possibility that i
Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2014 - In many industrialized countries, city skylines are dominated by imposing glass facades and skyscrapers made of concrete and steel. There is a drawback to these magnificent structures, though - they
Oslo, Norway (SPX) Mar 18, 2014 - The government of Norway will mandate the country's sovereign wealth fund, the largest in the world, to invest in renewable energy, Prime Minister Erna Solberg announced in Oslo today. We are
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 18, 2014 - Using a plant-derived chemical, UW-Madison researchers have developed a process for creating a concentrated stream of sugars that's ripe with possibility for biofuels. With the sugar platform
The Hague (AFP) March 17, 2014 - Greenpeace is suing Russia before the European Court of Human Rights for detaining its members during a protest last year against Arctic drilling, the environmental lobby group said on Monday.
Washington (AFP) March 17, 2014 - US Navy Seals boarded and took control of an oil tanker that had loaded crude at a rebel-held port in eastern Libya and escaped to sea, the Pentagon said Monday.
London, UK (SPX) Mar 14, 2014 - Gas networks in Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine and Belarus are less resilient than the UK during conflicts and crises, according to new research from mathematicians at Queen Mary Univer
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 14, 2014 - America's current energy boom may take a new direction thanks to the discovery of a new way to turn raw natural gas into upgraded liquid alcohol fuel. In the March 14 issue of Science magazine, chem
Washington (AFP) March 14, 2014 - The United States announced Thursday an end to its ban on BP obtaining government contracts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Jupiter FL (SPX) Mar 14, 2014 - As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient m
Kawaihae HI (SPX) Mar 13, 2014 - By order of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Tiger Group's Remarketing Services Division and Aaron Equipment Company Inc. are liquidating an activated carbon processing facility and a biomass power plant
