Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2011 - Bioprospectors from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found a microbe in a Nevada hot spring that happily eats plant material - cellulose
Sydney (AFP) July 11, 2011 - Airlines, miners and industry launched a furious attack on Australia's bold new tax on carbon emissions Monday, as Prime Minister Julia Gillard began selling the levy to sceptical voters.
Corpus Christi TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2011 - Just as corn and peanuts stunned the world decades ago with their then-newly discovered multi-beneficial uses and applications, Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Corpus Christi think microalgae
Belgrade, Serbia (UPI) Jul 11, 2011 - Serbia says it will ask the United Nations to declare the birth date of scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla International Science Day.
Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2011 - China's top military officer on Monday called the timing of American naval exercises in the sensitive South China Sea inappropriate, after holding talks with his US counterpart in Beijing.
Sydney (AFP) July 10, 2011 - Australia Sunday announced plans to tax carbon pollution at Aus$23 (US$24.74) per tonne to help battle climate change, as it moves towards an emissions trading scheme similar to that of Europe.
Hanoi (AFP) July 10, 2011 - Vietnamese police forcibly dispersed an anti-China rally on Sunday and arrested at least 10 people, including journalists, after a series of protests over tensions in the South China Sea.
Sydney (AFP) July 9, 2011 - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out fighting over her contentious pollution tax Saturday, warning the freedom to pollute our skies was over, ending 20 years of denial and delay.
Chicago (AFP) July 8, 2011 - BP wants to stop paying most people affected by the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill for potential future damages because the region has recovered, a document released Friday said.
Beijing (AFP) July 8, 2011 - China and the Philippines agreed Friday not to allow rising tensions over conflicting claims in the South China Seas to hamper bilateral relations, the two governments said in a joint statement.
London (UPI) Jul 8, 2011 - Plunging prices for EU carbon allowances will go still lower unless their supply is tightened, a British environmental group said this week.
Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2011 - Japan's largest mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, plans to start powering its cellphone tower network with renewable energy such as solar, wind or biomass, the company said Friday.
Manila, Philippines (UPI) Jul 8, 2011 - Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario is in Beijing for talks concerning disputed islands that increasingly cause friction between the two countries.
Washington (AFP) July 8, 2011 - The top US military officer left for China Friday in a trip designed to bolster a fledgling security dialogue with Beijing, even as a US naval exercise in the South China Sea threatens to upstage his visit.
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2011 - Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been changing the way we see the world since the 1960s. Their usage in everyday life is pervasive and continues to increase thanks to the cutting-edge research bein
Manchester UK (SPX) Jul 08, 2011 - Working with the Universities of East Anglia, York and Nottingham and using nanotechnology 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair, the researchers are working on harnessing the vas
