New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 25, 2010 - Engineers moved ahead Sunday with preparations for a well kill operation that officials hope will permanently plug the oil leak causing the worst US environmental disaster.
London (AFP) July 24, 2010 - BP will start drilling off the Libyan coast in a few weeks, it said Saturday, despite lingering questions over the deal which led to the exploration and the oil firm's role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
New Orleans (AFP) July 23, 2010 - An alarm that should have alerted workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to a deadly build-up of gas that sank the platform, sparking a huge oil spill, had been muted months before, a former rig worker said Friday.
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - Boeing has announced its ecoDemonstrator Program for accelerating environmental technologies. The ecoDemonstrator Program will emphasize emerging technologies in the areas of fuel efficiency, noise reduction and operational efficiency, while readying technologies at a faster pace for aviation applications.
Lincoln NE (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - U.S. military operations to protect oil imports coming from the Middle East are creating larger amounts of greenhouse gas emissions than once thought, new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln shows.
Berlin (UPI) Jul 23, 2010 - Germany is angry that the European Commission wants member states to close loss-making coal mines within the next four years.
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jul 23, 2010 - Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity production about 20 times.
Hanoi (AFP) July 23, 2010 - Resolving disputes over the South China Sea is pivotal to regional stability, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at security talks on Friday.
London (UPI) Jul 23, 2010 - Cash-strapped Britain has revived a multimillion-dollar project to build an airport on St. Helena Island to provide a vital link to the Falkland Islands, increasingly the center of bitter Argentine sovereignty claims.
Gainesville FL (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - Surface tension isn't a very powerful force, but it matters for small things - water bugs, paint, and, it turns out, nanowires.
Washington (AFP) July 22, 2010 - The five US states along the Gulf of Mexico could lose 22.7 billion dollars in tourist revenue over the next three years because of the massive BP oil leak, a study showed Thursday.
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - With pressure mounting to reduce dependence on petroleum products, CSIRO has convened the meeting to coincide with the International Symposium on Plant Lipids which is being held in Cairns from July 11-16.
Norfolk VA (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - As Arctic ice recedes, countries are looking forward to faster, safer and more efficient sea routes across the top of the world.
Kirkuk, Iraq (UPI) Jul 22, 2010 - Whether the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline can be realized depends also on whether the Europeans can secure natural gas supplies from northern Iraq.
Victoria, Australia (SPX) Jul 22, 2010 - A teleoperated shiploader designed to remotely control the loading iron ore is being trialled by Rio Tinto at a port in the Pilbara.
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 22, 2010 - A storm threatened on Thursday to force the evacuation of the drilling rigs that are the final solution to a three-month environmental and economic nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico.
