Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2013 - The search for a less-expensive, sustainable source of biomass, or plant material, for producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuel has led scientists to duckweed, that fast-growing floating plant that t
Brussels (UPI) Mar 8, 2013 - Natural gas produced in Norway has a role to play in the European Union's low-carbon energy future, EU Commissioner Gunther Oettinger assured this week.
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Mar 8, 2013 - A new deal by Russia's Gazprom energy giant to market Israeli liquefied natural gas puts Moscow firmly in the burgeoning and contentious east Mediterranean energy sector, and shows that it's again emerging as a player in the strategic region.
San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2013 - What can green algae do for science if they weren't, well, green? That's the question biologists at UC San Diego sought to answer when they engineered a green alga used commonly in laboratories, Chl
Caracas (AFP) March 8, 2013 - The gaggle of world leaders paying their last respects to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday features a Who's Who list of US foes: Cuba's communist leader, Iran's nuclear provocateur and Europe's last dictator.
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 07, 2013 - Researchers have shown theoretically how to control or eliminate the formation of dendrites that cause lithium-ion batteries to fail, an advance that if realized would improve safety and might ena
Sydney (UPI) Mar 7, 2013 - Australia's top industry lobby group has called for the immediate removal of the country's fixed carbon tax and to replace it with an internationally linked emissions trading scheme.
Phoenix (UPI) Mar 7, 2013 - Conversion of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country produce cane-derived ethanol but could lead to climate change, researchers say.
Golden CO (SPX) Mar 07, 2013 - A screening tool from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) eases and greatly quickens one of the thorniest tasks in the biofuels industry: determining cell wal
Sofia (AFP) March 07, 2013 - Bulgaria's outgoing parliament confirmed on Thursday a government decision to pull out of the long-stalled Burgas Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project.
Brussels (AFP) March 07, 2013 - Emissions from coal-fired power plants in the European Union contribute to over 18,000 premature deaths a year and cost an annual 42.8 billion euros, a report from the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) said Thursday.
Baghdad (AFP) March 7, 2013 - Iraq's parliament approved on Thursday a $119.1 billion (91.6 billion euro) budget for 2013 after weeks of delay, but Kurdish representatives and most members of the main Sunni-backed bloc did not attend, MPs said.
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 07, 2013 - A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs in both superconductivity research and in real-world applications.
London, UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2013 - This where we stand, and it's a fairly bleak view: Peak oil is almost here, and nothing new (with the possible but unlikely exception of Iraq) is coming online anytime soon and while the clock is ti
Tehran (UPI) Mar 7, 2013 - After years of delays and setbacks, not least bitter U.S. opposition, Pakistan is set to start work on its section of a $7.5 billion pipeline that will pump badly needed natural gas from Iran's Persian Gulf field.
London, UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2013 - Physicists in Russia are the first to detect water dimers - bonded pairs of gaseous water molecules - in conditions similar to Earth's atmosphere. Such dimers have been predicted to have important e
