Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 15, 2012 - China's Sinopec and ENN Energy Holdings said Monday they have dropped a $2.2 billion offer for China Gas Holdings, the first hostile bid by a state-owned Chinese business for a private firm.
Seoul (AFP) Oct 15, 2012 - South Korea on Monday doubled its target for reducing carbon dioxide emissions next year, as it moves towards the introduction of a nationwide cap-and-trade system in 2015.
Bangui, Central African Republic (AFP) Oct 15, 2012 - Two Chinese nationals working on a road project in Central African Republic were kidnapped in an attack three weeks ago on a border post along the Cameroonian frontier, a police source said Monday.
Berlin (AFP) Oct 14, 2012 - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have developed plans to damage an oil tanker in the Gulf to create an environmental disaster, German magazine Spiegel reported on Sunday.
Warsaw (AFP) Oct 13, 2012 - Poland will invest 50 billion zlotys (15.5 billion euros) in the exploration of shale gas by 2020, Finance Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said Saturday.
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2012 - Researchers around the world are working on an efficient, reliable way to contain the plasma used in fusion reactors, potentially bringing down the cost of this promising but technically elusive ene
Phoenix (UPI) Oct 12, 2012 - Researchers from Arizona State University have developed a software system that estimates greenhouse gas emissions in cities.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - AllCell Technologies received a new U.S. patent covering the use of phase change materials (PCM) to prevent thermal runaway propagation in electrochemical devices such as lithium-ion batteries, ultr
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 11, 2012 - Canada's industry minister announced Thursday a 30-day extension to review Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC's $15.1 billion takeover bid for the Canadian oil and gas company Nexen.
Baghdad (UPI) Oct 11, 2012 - Chinese oil companies are showing a growing interest in Iraq's oil industry, which the International Energy Agency expects to more than double production by the end of the decade to 6.1 million barrels per day.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Emerging from the global economic recession, investments in renewable energy technologies continued their steady rise in 2011, with total new investments in renewable power and fuels (excluding larg
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - A new Economic Policy Institute study finds that industries with higher proportions of green jobs have higher job growth than does the overall economy. In Counting up to green: Assessing the g
New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Expanding production of palm oil, a common ingredient in processed foods, soaps and personal care products, is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Catalysts are substances that speed up the rates of chemical reactions without themselves being chemically changed. Industrial catalysts come in two main types - heterogeneous, in which the catalyst
London, UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2012 - Following record droughts across the United States the benefits of the ethanol subsidy were once again hotly debated and biofuels in general found themselves generating quite a few unflattering head
Upton NY (SPX) Oct 10, 2012 - Using a computational model they designed to incorporate detailed information about plants' interconnected metabolic processes, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labo
