Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 - Panda poop contains bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of biofuels produced not from corn and other food sources, b
Manila (AFP) Aug 30, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino flew to China late Tuesday, aides said, on a mission to secure billions of dollars in business deals as the two sides look to move beyond a territorial row.
Seoul (UPI) Aug 30, 2011 - South Korea has inaugurated what it says is the world's largest tidal power plant.
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 - How do diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth's surface? Does a secret realm of life exist inside the Earth? Is there more oil and na
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 - Many energy researchers and environmental advocates are excited about the prospect of gaining more efficient large-scale biofuel production by using large grasses like miscanthus or switchgrass rath
Urbana IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 - University of Illinois scientists have engineered a new strain of yeast that converts seaweed into biofuel in half the time it took just months ago. That's a process that's important outside the Cor
United Nations (AFP) Aug 29, 2011 - China has held up moves by Britain, France and Germany to get a UN sanctions committee to release five billion dollars of frozen Libyan assets to buy emergency aid, diplomats said Monday.
Bucharest (AFP) Aug 29, 2011 - The head of Romania's environment protection agency quit Monday after the Balkan country was blocked from selling carbon credits over concerns about irregularities, the government said.
Shanghai (AFP) Aug 29, 2011 - Chinese oil giant Sinopec, Asia's largest refiner, has reported a 12 percent gain in net profit for the first half this year, thanks to strong growth in the world's second largest economy.
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 28, 2011 - Iraq's cabinet approved a draft oil and gas law on Sunday in a bid to finally pass rules regulating the country's most lucrative sector after years of political deadlock.
Bucharest (AFP) Aug 28, 2011 - The Kyoto Protocol committee has blocked Romania from selling carbon credits over concerns about irregularities in the country's carbon emissions data, Romania's environment ministry said Sunday.
Manila (AFP) Aug 28, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino travels to China this week on a mission to secure billions of dollars in trade deals, with both sides looking to rebuild goodwill amid a bruising territorial row.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2011 - The main challenge presented in many of these models is the precise prediction of the pressure profile in addition to liquid/gas volumes and flow rates at various points along the oil well. T
Denver (UPI) Aug 26, 2011 - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a clean energy revolution, saying that now is the time to invest in universal energy access, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
New Orleans LA (SPX) Aug 26, 2011 - Here's one way that old-fashioned newsprint beats the Internet. Tulane University scientists have discovered a novel bacterial strain, dubbed TU-103, that can use paper to produce butanol, a biofu
Nicosia, Cyprus (UPI) Aug 26, 2011 - The governments of Cyprus and Israel, which both have seemingly intractable problems with Turkey, are moving closer together over the increasingly thorny issue of vast natural gas fields under the eastern Mediterranean.
