Phnom Penh (AFP) July 12, 2012 - The Philippines' foreign minister on Thursday denounced Chinese duplicity and intimidation in the South China Sea, souring the mood at a regional gathering designed to soothe tensions.
Miami FL (SPX) Jul 12, 2012 - The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in spring 2010 is the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, with more than 200 million gallons of crude oil released at about 1,500 m. depth off the
Washington (AFP) July 12, 2012 - The United States has deployed a fleet of robot subs in the Gulf to prevent Iran from blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz with mines in the event of a crisis, officials said Thursday.
Phnom Penh (AFP) July 11, 2012 - Southeast Asian states were sharply divided Wednesday over how to deal with recent disputes with Beijing as they attempted to agree a draft code of conduct for the flashpoint South China Sea.
Brussels (UPI) Jul 11, 2012 - The pilot phase of an EU bond initiative to boost funding for energy and other infrastructure projects was approved by ministers this week.
Ramallah, West Bank (UPI) Jul 11, 2012 - Israel is reported to be drilling for oil close to the occupied West Bank after a government-commissioned report recommended legalizing Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory on the bizarre premise that the occupation does not exist.
Phnom Penh (AFP) July 11, 2012 - Japan protested to China on Wednesday as a new diplomatic row flared over a remote chain of islands, with Beijing asserting its indisputable sovereignty over the uninhabited territories.
East Lansing, MI (SPX) Jul 11, 2012 - A new biofuel production process created by Michigan State University researchers produces energy more than 20 times higher than existing methods. The results, published in the current issue of Envi
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2012 - Some of the planet's tiniest inhabitants may help address two of society's biggest environmental challenges: how to deal with the vast quantities of organic waste produced and where to find clean, r
Washington (AFP) July 11, 2012 - Human Rights Watch on Wednesday urged the World Bank to withhold support for a power line that would take electricity from Ethiopia to Kenya, citing environmental and human rights concerns.
Phnom Penh (AFP) July 10, 2012 - Southeast Asian states want a UN maritime convention to be the basis for settling competing claims in the South China Sea, a draft document showed Tuesday.
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 - Federal pipeline safety regulators have announced that Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company responsible for spilling over a million gallons of tar sands into Michigan's Kalamazoo River watershed
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 - A study carried out by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland indicates that extreme weather conditions cost EU transport system at least 15 billion euros a year. Currently, the greatest costs inc
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 - Taking another step in the development of its wind farm design software, GL Garrad Hassan has released version 5.0 of WindFarmer. The software aids the design and analysis of wind farm layouts, to g
Karlusche, Germany (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 - One bit of digital information stored on a hard disk currently consists of about 3 million magnetic atoms. Researchers from Karlsruhe, Strasbourg, and Japan have now developed a mag-netic memory wit
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 - A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research Council in 1995. Scientists now ca
