Nairobi (AFP) Jan 24, 2014 - South Sudan's government and rebels have signed a ceasefire, but analysts warn that bringing battling gunmen on the ground under control and making the truce stick is far from guaranteed.
Austin TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary tab
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2014 - Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types-black, white and green (or vegetated)-Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have found
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Jan 23, 2014 - Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates have made breakthroughs in sustainable aviation biofuel development, finding that desert plants fed by seawater will produce biofuel more eff
Moscow (AFP) Jan 23, 2014 - Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom reported on Thursday a 10.5-percent plunge in third-quarter profits but gains over the first nine months of 2013 thanks booming European sales.
Brussels (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - The European Commission issued Wednesday recommendations to ensure that clear environmental safeguards are in place when the controversial technique of fracking is used to tap shale gas reserves.
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries - storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices like camera flashes. So-called supercapacitors take
Brussels (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - The EU should cut greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming, by 40 percent by 2030, the European Commission said Wednesday, disappointing environmentalists but getting a cautious welcome from industry groups.
Tehran (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Iran's oil minister will hold a face-to-face meeting at Davos with major oil companies to try to coax them back to the sanctions-hit Islamic republic, media reported Wednesday.
Baghdad (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Iraq's oil exports and revenues declined in 2013 compared to the previous year, official figures showed Wednesday, despite efforts to dramatically ramp up crude sales to fund much-needed reconstruction.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The Clean Energy Council has congratulated its members Hydro Tasmania and Vestas on the successful opening of Tasmania's largest wind farm, the 56-turbine Musselroe Wind Farm in the state's north-ea
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a rule on January 9, 2014 requiring oil and gas companies using hydraulic fracturing off the coast of California to disclose the chemicals they dis
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Germany's energy turnaround, or Energiewende, has become one of that country's most far-reaching projects in industrial policy. By 2050, renewable energy resources are supposed to provide 60 perce
Montreal (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Oil started to flow on Wednesday through the southern US leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, its Canadian operator said, while Washington mulls whether on not to approve its northern half.
Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jan 21, 2014 - Boeing , Etihad Airways, Takreer, Total and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have announced they will collaborate on a new initiative to support a sustainable aviation biofuel industry
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 21, 2014 - The Kronprins Haakon modern icebreaker for exploration of resources in the Arctic will be ready by 2016, Norway's Minister of Fishery Elisabeth Aspaker said at the opening of the Arctic Borders inte
