Manila (AFP) May 24, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday said he warned the Chinese defence minister of a possible arms race in the region if tensions worsened over disputes in the South China Sea.
Berkeley, Calif. (UPI) May 24, 2011 - California can reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 largely through existing technologies, a report says.
Southampton UK (SPX) May 24, 2011 - The University of Southampton is playing a key role in a major public/private partnership to evaluate the use of biomass to create a cost effective and sustainable UK energy system for 2050. D
London UK (SPX) May 24, 2011 - Forest fragmentation driven by demand for palm oil is having a catastrophic effect on multiple levels of biodiversity, scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered. The res
Baghdad (AFP) May 23, 2011 - Iraqi oil exports brought in record income in April on the back of rising oil prices, breaking a mark set the previous month, the oil ministry said on Monday.
Manila (AFP) May 23, 2011 - The Philippines and China pledged Monday to avoid unilateral actions that could further inflame tensions over rival claims to the potentially oil-rich Spratlys island chain.
Boston MA (SPX) May 23, 2011 - Today, FirstEnergy (FirstEnergy) shareholders will vote on a proposal asking the company to report on its efforts to reduce the environmental and health hazards of coal ash stored in ponds, landfill
Monash, Australia (SPX) May 23, 2011 - An international team, of scientists, led by a team at Monash University has found the key to the hydrogen economy could come from a very simple mineral, commonly seen as a black stain on rocks.
Manila (AFP) May 22, 2011 - President Benigno Aquino said Sunday he would discuss reported incidents between Philippine and Chinese ships and planes in the Spratlys with China's defence minister to ease tensions over the disputed islands.
Thiruvananthapuram (PTI) May 20, 2011 - ISRO has resumed monthly launches of sounding rockets from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) under Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) here to conduct studies of upper atmospher
Baghdad (UPI) May 20, 2011 - Iraq's energy chiefs are sticking to their ambitious plans to increase oil production five-fold to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 despite warnings by oil companies and industry pundits that a woeful lack of infrastructure makes it all a pipedream.
Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) May 20, 2011 - The Russian-European Nord Stream pipeline will drain Ukraine's natural gas transit revenues by up to $720 million a year starting in 2012, the country's state-owned gas transit company said.
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) May 19, 2011 - Billions of dollars lost each year as waste heat from industrial processes can be converted into electricity with a technology being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Labora
New Delhi (UPI) May 19, 2011 - India's telecommunications sector has emitted more than 5.6 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions since 2008, due to its heavy reliance on diesel for generating power, a new Greenpeace report says.
Baghdad (UPI) May 19, 2011 - Oil supremo Hussein al-Shahristani says Iraq's oil reserves have risen to 200 billion barrels, making it the country with the third highest oil reserves; but bombings in the oil city of Kirkuk underline how security in Iraq remains precarious.
Baghdad (AFP) May 19, 2011 - A decision by Kuwait to build a new port that would encroach on what some Iraqi officials insist are its territorial waters risks setting off a major diplomatic dispute between the two neighbours.
