London (AFP) March 11, 2013 - Global oil prices fell on Monday as Chinese industrial production showed signs of a slowdown in the world's biggest energy-consuming nation, analysts said.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2013 - Expanding production of the United States' shale gas reserves in recent years has put downward pressure on natural gas prices across the nation, prompting massive fuel-switching from coal- to gas-fi
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP) March 10, 2013 - Britain, Italy and Greece on Sunday said that a claim by a Nigerian Islamist group that it had killed seven foreign hostages appeared to be true, while London denied it had sought to stage a rescue.
Caracas (AFP) March 9, 2013 - Venezuela's new acting president, Nicolas Maduro, held talks with a Chinese delegation on Saturday and the two sides vowed to deepen strategic relations in honor of late leader Hugo Chavez.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2013 - Scientists are reporting an advance in re-engineering photosynthesis to transform plants into bio-factories that manufacture high-value ingredients for medicines, fabrics, fuels and other products.
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 08, 2013 - Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol but it also could lead to important regional climate effect
London (UPI) Mar 8, 2013 - Britain's National Trust says it will challenge 25 wind farm projects as part of a battle plan to maintain the country's rural environments.
Santiago, Chile (UPI) Mar 8, 2013 - A costly court battle looms over a $1.4 billion Chilean power plant well advanced in construction but faced with cancellation after an appeals court ruling on local protests.
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.
