Beijing (UPI) Dec 17, 2012 - China has submitted to the United Nations what it calls geological evidence that would mean disputed islands in the East China Sea close are Chinese territory.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 17, 2012 - Japan's premier-in-waiting Shinzo Abe came out fighting Monday after his sweeping election victory, saying there can be no compromise on the sovereignty of islands at the centre of a dispute with China.
Tehran (AFP) Dec 17, 2012 - Iran is losing half of its oil revenues because of international sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said in remarks quoted by media on Monday.
Raleigh, NC (SPX) Dec 17, 2012 - New research from North Carolina State University provides molecular-level insights into how cellulose - the most common organic compound on Earth and the main structural component of plant cell wal
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Dec 15, 2012 - US oil giant Chevron has agreed to pay 310 million reales ($155 million) to Brazil for an oil spill last year that fouled beaches in Rio de Janeiro, officials said Saturday.
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Dec 14, 2012 - Algeria's state energy company Sonatrach is pushing an $80 billion, five-year investment program to expand its oil and natural gas industry and is offering an incentives package to woo foreign companies to develop its shale energy resources.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Dec 14, 2012 - The next few weeks to the scheduled Jan. 10 presidential inauguration in Venezuela will determine how politics will affect ordinary lives in the oil-rich nation and its future direction.
New York NY (SPX) Dec 13, 2012 - Rose madder - a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles - has found a second life as the basis for a new green battery. Chemists from The City College of
Chicago (AFP) Dec 13, 2012 - A Texas court has lifted a temporary restraining order on construction of a small portion of the controversial Keystone pipeline, operator TransCanada said Thursday.
Suriqui Island, Bolivia (AFP) Dec 13, 2012 - The Limachi family specializes in building eco-friendly reed ships at this shipyard on the top of the world with pre-Columbian technology. But don't be fooled - these ships can sail across vast oceans.
London (AFP) Dec 13, 2012 - The British government came out in favour of a controversial shale gas extraction method known as fracking, saying on Thursday that work should be resumed even though it is suspected of having triggered earthquakes.
New Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 13, 2012 - ExxonMobil and many other energy companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop transportation biofuels from renewable resources such as the oil or hydrocarbons produced by micro
Ottawa (AFP) Dec 13, 2012 - Encana on Thursday sold a stake in its Duvernay oil field in Canada's Alberta province to Phoenix Duvernay Gas, a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned PetroChina for Can$2.18 billion.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2012 - Here's a reason to be glad about madder: The climbing plant has the potential to make a greener rechargeable battery. Scientists at Rice University and the City College of New York have discovered t
Calgary, Alberta (UPI) Dec 13, 2012 - Trio Merger Corp. and SAExploration have agreed to merge as part of a strategy to expand SAE's seismic data acquisition business worldwide.
Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Dec 13, 2012 - Turkey and Iraq's independence-minded Kurds are reported to be close to a potentially explosive deal on major investment by Ankara in the burgeoning energy industry of the semiautonomous Kurdish enclave on Turkey's southern border.
