Yaounde, Cameroon (UPI) Dec 2, 2010 - Cameroon, a tiny off-the-beaten-track country in West Africa, is grappling with mounting attacks on its fledgling oil industry that threaten its economic prospects and have already slashed production by 13 percent.
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Dec 02, 2010 - The versatile organism Lactococcus lactis, the workhorse bacterium that helps turn milk into cheese, may also be valuable in the understanding of how microbes turn the organic compound cellulose int
Caracas (AFP) Dec 2, 2010 - China will invest more than 40 billion dollars in Venezuela's oil- and gas-rich eastern Orinoco belt by 2016, Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told a meeting of gas exporters in Qatar Thursday.
Danbury CT (SPX) Dec 02, 2010 - FuelCell Energy will jointly develop a small-scale Direct FuelCell (DFC) power plant with its South Korean partner, POSCO Power. The power plant will target the fast-growing commercial applica
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Dec 02, 2010 - The results achieved by this research team headed by Prof. Kurt Westerholt and Prof. Hartmut Zabel (Department of Physics and Astronomy at RUB) could contribute to new, power saving components in th
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Dec 1, 2010 - The United Arab Emirates has completed a pipeline from its main oil fields in Abu Dhabi to Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, thus bypassing the chokepoint Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil export route highly vulnerable to closure by Iran.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 01, 2010 - Growing corn for biofuels production is having unintended effects on water quality and quantity in northwestern Mississippi. More water is required to produce corn than to produce cotton in th
Beijing (UPI) Dec 1, 2010 - China is now the leader in the global renewable energy market, a report by Ernst & Young says.
Houston (UPI) Dec 1, 2010 - The European Union leads the world in reducing sulfur in on-road diesel fuel as industry and policymakers push for ongoing reductions, a report says.
Brussels (UPI) Dec 1, 2010 - The growing global demand for natural resources could threaten Europe's economy, a report has warned.
Durham NC (SPX) Dec 01, 2010 - As the Environmental Protection Agency weighs whether to define coal ash as hazardous waste, a study by Duke University researchers identifies new monitoring protocols and insights that can help inv
Lagos (AFP) Dec 1, 2010 - Nigeria's military said it had raided three camps run by suspected rebels in the southern Delta State on Wednesday in an attack that a militant group said had left more than 100 people dead.
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2010 - President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to expand oil exploration off US coasts and, in the wake of the BP spill, will extend a deepwater drilling ban in certain areas through 2017, an official said Wednesday.
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2010 - President Barack Obama on Wednesday reversed a March decision to expand offshore oil exploration to the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Gulf of Mexico, but allowed deepwater drilling to continue in the part of the Gulf hit by the BP disaster.
New York (AFP) Dec 1, 2010 - Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday boosted by strong economic data from the world's two largest economies, the United States and China.
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 01, 2010 - The generation of electricity and heat with no pollution and with considerably less emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 sounds too good to be true. However, it is possible with the so-called SO
