Cape Town (AFP) May 2, 2012 - Controversial exploration of South Africa's Karoo region for shale gas might be worth the trouble if the work is subjected to strict controls, a national environment official said Wednesday.
Helsinki (AFP) May 2, 2012 - A Finnish icebreaker contracted to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has left Helsinki for the Arctic despite Greenpeace's attempts to block its departure, the environmental group said Wednesday.
Taipei (AFP) May 2, 2012 - Taiwan's defence ministry said Wednesday that it has formed a special airborne unit capable of scrambling to the contested Spratly islands in just hours, as tensions in the South China Sea mounted.
Tokyo (AFP) May 2, 2012 - Tokyo has raised almost $1.0 million in donations to buy a small chain of disputed islands, the city's government said Wednesday, after its controversial governor announced the planned purchase last month.
United Nations (AFP) May 2, 2012 - The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution giving Sudan and South Sudan 48 hours to halt hostilities or face potential sanctions.
Baghdad (AFP) May 1, 2012 - Iraq's crude exports in April were the highest monthly figure in more than 20 years, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday.
London (AFP) May 1, 2012 - BP net profits sank 18 percent in the first quarter on lower oil output triggered by the sale of assets to meet costs of the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster, the British energy giant said on Tuesday.
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) May 1, 2012 - Brazil says natural gas finds on land herald a golden age of the energy resource and will likely reduce dependence on gas imports from Bolivia.
Beijing (UPI) May 1, 2012 - China invested $222 million in its shale gas sector last year, a government official said.
Helsinki (AFP) May 1, 2012 - Twenty Greenpeace activists chained themselves to an icebreaker in Helsinki's harbour on Tuesday in a bid to block Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic.
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 01, 2012 - A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the
Albany NY (SPX) May 01, 2012 - Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, led by Liming
Houston TX (SPX) May 01, 2012 - A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly products and did so in a cost-effective ma
Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2012 - Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting regions carved into the superconducti
Beijing (UPI) Apr 30, 2012 - China has ordered oil giant ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corp. to pay $269 million for oil spills at a Bohai Bay oilfield run by Conoco.
Reykjavik, Iceland (UPI) Apr 30, 2012 - Iceland's state-owned renewable energy company says it will study the feasibility of laying the world's longest submarine electric cable to Europe.
