Tokyo (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 - Japanese schoolchildren in yellow scarves, blue hats and red caps buzzed through an eco-products fair - a green show-and-tell for high tech companies seeking to enthuse a new generation.
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 16, 2010 - Iraq's Kurds are demanding greater control over their oil resources in return for supporting Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's new coalition government after nine months of political intrigue triggered by an inconclusive parliamentary election in March.
Urbana IL (SPX) Dec 16, 2010 - Is red seaweed a viable future biofuel? Now that a University of Illinois metabolic engineer has developed a strain of yeast that can make short work of fermenting galactose, the answer is an unequi
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Dec 16, 2010 - In the world-wide race to develop energy sources that are seen as green because they are renewable and less greenhouse gas-intensive, sometimes the most basic questions remain unanswered. In
Zurich (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 - Offshore drilling group Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon platform that sank off the southern US coast, on Thursday rejected any responsibility for the subsquent giant oil spill.
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Dec 15, 2010 - Libya's hopes of new oil strikes in the Gulf of Sidra have been set back by BP's postponement of launching a $1 billion deep-water exploration program as the company grapples with the aftermath of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Beijing (UPI) Dec 15, 2010 - China could be faced with the very real possibility of peak coal - the point at which demand for coal will outstrip domestic production capacity.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 15, 2010 - In light of ongoing negotiations in the U.S. Congress, regarding the future of subsidies in support of domestic ethanol production and the US$0.54 per gallon tariff imposed on imported ethanol, the
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 15, 2010 - European and U.S. physicists this week are offering up the strongest evidence yet that magnetism is the driving force behind unconventional superconductivity. The findings by researchers from Rice U
Miami FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2010 - Renewable fuels and chemicals developer Amyris took the #1 spot in the 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings, published in Biofuels Digest, the online daily bioenergy news service.
Washington (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 - The United States filed suit Wednesday for the first time against BP and eight other companies for uncounted billions of dollars in damages from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst in US history.
Hampton VA (SPX) Dec 14, 2010 - In Mark Moore's world, long nanotubes reach into the clouds, serving at once to tether a turbine-vehicle flying at 2,000 feet, or 10,000 feet, or 30,000 feet (610, 3,050 and 9,150 meters); and also
Seattle WA (SPX) Dec 14, 2010 - Harnessing the power of ocean tides has long been imagined, but countries are only now putting it into practice. A demonstration project planned for Puget Sound will be the first tidal energy projec
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2010 - Storing massive amounts of carbon dioxide underground in an effort to combat global warming may not be easy to do because of the potential for triggering small- to moderate-sized earthquakes, accord
Changhua, Taiwan (AFP) Dec 14, 2010 - Hundreds of supporters and opponents of a controversial plan to build a petrochemical complex clashed in central Taiwan Tuesday as the government held a public hearing into the project.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2010 - Carsten Beier from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany does not believe that anyone would burn a 50-dollar bill just to keep warm
