Paris (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - The Emirati oil boss preparing to take the helm of UN climate talks said he is stunned to hear that environmentalists suspect him of duplicity on climate change.
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced a growing backlash on Tuesday over exempting home heating oil from the state's carbon tax, with one province threatening to stop collecting the levy altogether.
Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday approved a plan to build the United States' largest ever offshore wind farm, which would power hundreds of thousands of homes with clean energy.
Colombo (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Sri Lanka is set to award a multi-billion dollar oil refinery project to a Chinese state-owned company after a rival bidder pulled out, the energy minister said Tuesday.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - Nothing has yet been agreed between the nearly 200 countries that will meet at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, with two days of preparatory talks in Abu Dhabi failing to produce any major breakthrough, participants said Tuesday.
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 31, 2023 - A demand for targets for the phase-out of fossil fuels in the final agreement of COP28 in Dubai is not frivolous but an urgent request backed by crystal clear science, Europe's climate commissioner told AFP on Tuesday.
London (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 - Britain on Monday awarded 27 new licences for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea as it seeks to quickly boost energy security, but the announcement angered environmentalists.
Upton NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - Plant biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have engineered enzymes to modify grass plants so their biomass can be more efficiently converted into biofue
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only release
Paris (AFP) Oct 30, 2023 - The amount of CO2 the world can emit and still limit warming to 1.5C is much smaller than previously thought and could be used up in six years at current pollution levels, according to research published on Monday.
College Park MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - University of Maryland researchers studying how lithium batteries fail have developed a new technology that could enable next-generation electric vehicles (EVs) and other devices that are less prone
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 30, 2023 - The Biden administration is undertaking an effort to modernize the country's aging electric grid with an investment of more than $30 billion.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - In a major breakthrough that could revolutionize the production of solar fuels, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a novel 3D printing methodology to create a reactor core with intricate, hier
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - Researchers from the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)-Drs. SuDong Park, Byungki Ryu, and Jaywan Chung-have formulated a new approach to thermoelectric efficiency and engineered a hi
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - In the continued effort to move humanity away from fossil fuels and towards more environmentally friendly energy sources, researchers in Japan have developed a new material capable storing hydrogen
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 - A lithium ceramic could act as a solid electrolyte in a more powerful and cost-efficient generation of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The challenge is to find a production method that works wit
