Ottawa (AFP) May 17, 2011 - Wildfires forced evacuations in Canada's western oil-producing region oil on Tuesday, slowing or halting production of the largest oil and gas supplier to the United States.
Sydney (AFP) May 17, 2011 - Australia's use of renewable energy as an electricity source has slumped as a percentage of total output over the past 50 years with an increasing reliance on polluting coal, research showed Tuesday.
London (AFP) May 17, 2011 - Britain on Tuesday unveiled plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2025, ramping up pressure on the European Union to increase its target.
Austin TX (SPX) May 17, 2011 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created a new porous, three-dimensional carbon that can be used as a greatly enhanced supercapacitor, holding p
Tokyo (AFP) May 17, 2011 - Japan is to launch a review of economic and energy policies in the wake of the country's March 11 natural disaster and the ongoing nuclear crisis it spawned, the cabinet said Tuesday.
Stockholm (AFP) May 17, 2011 - Planet Earth and humanity will face each other in a mock trial Tuesday, with around 20 Nobel Prize winners figuring as judges, organisers of a global sustainability symposium in Stockholm said.
London, UK (SPX) May 17, 2011 - Writing in the scientific journal Nature, scientists have called for increased discussion of independent monitoring of deep-sea hydrocarbon industry activity with the aim of obtaining a better under
Beijing (UPI) May 17, 2011 - China is on course to face its worst power crunch this summer since 2004, China Daily newspaper reports.
Canberra, Australia (UPI) May 16, 2011 - Australia's renewable energy share has fallen since 1960, claims a new report by an environmental group released Monday.
Pretoria, South Africa (SPX) May 16, 2011 - The key to the survival of forestry in South Africa as well as many new possibilities for renewable bioproducts like biofuels and biopolymers may now be available with the click of a mouse. Th
Berlin (UPI) May 16, 2011 - Greenhouse gas emissions from buildings could be cut by 25 percent using existing technology, the International Energy Agency said Monday.
New Delhi (PTI) May 16, 2011 - The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to set up an advanced R and D centre in the field of spacecraft technologies in Karnataka's Chitradurga and rocket sub-systems integration facility near
Bangalore (PTI) May 16, 2011 - Indian Space Research Organisation is lining up three PSLV launches from Sriharikota spaceport by October this year, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Friday. He said PSLV-C17 would launch GSA
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 16, 2011 - Plants can overcome their evolutionary legacies to become much better at using biological photosynthesis to produce energy, the kind of energy that can power vehicles in the near future, an all-star
Moscow (AFP) May 16, 2011 - Architects on Monday presented ambitious plans for Russia's version of Silicon Valley, which they say will be the country's most ecologically friendly town, with cycle tracks, solar panels and windmills.
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 16, 2011 - I have a slide that has a photo of a cornfield and a big photovoltaic array, says Robert Blankenship, a scientist who studies photosynthesis at Washington University in St. Louis. When I give tal
