Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Mar 14, 2013 - International oil company chiefs gathered at a recent energy conference in Algiers hailed the protection Algeria's security forces provide the country's vital energy facilities, despite the January attack at a natural gas complex.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2013 - The search for sustainable new materials to store heat captured from the sun for release during the night has led scientists to a high-tech combination of paraffin wax and sand. Their report o
Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 14, 2013 - Pope Francis, acclaimed worldwide as a powerful new champion for the world's poor, risks becoming embroiled in Argentina's increasingly strident rhetoric of a sovereignty claim on the British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 14, 2013 - Emissions from coal-fired power plants caused up to 100,000 early deaths in India last year, a new report from Greenpeace said.
Hanoi (AFP) March 14, 2013 - Activists in Hanoi chanted anti-China slogans and laid flowers Thursday at a protest marking the anniversary of a battle over the contested Spratly Islands in which 64 Vietnamese soldiers died.
Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Mar 13, 2013 - An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new power source
London (UPI) Mar 13, 2013 - British preservationists say they have won a key legal battle in the effort to fight the placement of onshore wind farms near historic sites.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Mar 13, 2013 - The launch of a controversial $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline from Iran to energy-starved Pakistan, despite U.S. efforts to torpedo the project, could have a significant geopolitical effect in Asia and put U.S. policy to the test.
Tokyo (UPI) Mar 13, 2013 - Japan has extracted natural gas from methane hydrate from offshore deposits and is believed to be the first country to do so.
Sheffield UK (SPX) Mar 12, 2013 - It may be better to tolerate lower oil content in algae grown for biodiesel to boost growth and overall productivity, says research from the University of Sheffield. The research shows that th
Beijing (AFP) March 12, 2013 - Beijing plans to send a survey team to land on small East China Sea islands at the centre of a bitter territorial dispute with Japan, state media reported Tuesday, in what would be a major escalation of the row.
Tokyo (AFP) March 12, 2013 - Japan said Tuesday it had successfully extracted methane hydrate, known as fire ice, from its seabed, possibly unlocking many years' worth of gas for the resource-starved country.
London (AFP) March 12, 2013 - Global oil prices drifted lower on Tuesday, as Chinese economic worries overshadowed last week's upbeat US non-farm payrolls data, dealers said.
Beijing, China( SPX) Mar 12, 2013 - The current international climate policy framework is mainly based on the national and regional level of macroscopic carbon emissions data, such as the regional per capita carbon emissions are often
San Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2013 - Advanced energy CEOs believe that California's energy policies have put the state on the cutting edge of advanced energy development and innovation, but a variety of obstacles are preventing the sta
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2013 - Companies and communities across the country announced more than 300 clean energy and clean transportation projects in 2012 that are expected to create 110,000 jobs, according a report released by E
