London (AFP) July 21, 2023 - Contentious plans by London's mayor to extend a scheme taxing the use of the most polluting vehicles were being blamed Friday for costing his opposition Labour party Boris Johnson's old parliamentary seat.
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 21, 2023 - Rice University engineers can turn sunlight into hydrogen with record-breaking efficiency thanks to a device that combines next-generation halide perovskite semiconductors with electrocatalysts in a
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2023 - Individual palladium atoms attached to the surface of a catalyst can remove 90% of unburned methane from natural-gas engine exhaust at low temperatures, scientists reported in the journal Nature Cat
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2023 - Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels is going to require a transformation in the way we make things. That's because the hydrocarbons found in fuels like crude oil, natural gas, and coal are also in
Riyadh (AFP) July 21, 2023 - Saudi Aramco said on Friday it had completed its purchase of a 10-percent stake in a Chinese petrochemicals firm, part of an expansion into the world's top crude importer.
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2023 - President Joe Biden will visit a Philadelphia shipyard Thursday to announce construction of a new offshore wind vessel as part of the administration's continued push on manufacturing and clean energy.
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2023 - New carbon-cutting plans by this year's UN climate talks host the United Arab Emirates were branded insufficient by an analysis on Thursday that slammed the oil-rich nation for undermining its own targets with plans to increase fossil fuel production.
Moscow (AFP) July 20, 2023 - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched the first part of Arctic LNG 2, a massive liquified natural gas (LNG) project at Murmansk, in the Arctic.
Dubai (AFP) July 20, 2023 - Greenpeace Thursday praised a risky UN-led operation to transfer oil from a rusting Yemen tanker, but warned the threat of environmental catastrophe cannot be ruled out until the operation ends.
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2023 - Additional U.S. warships and Marines are to be deployed to the Middle East, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered Thursday, as the United States continues to bolster its military presence in the region to counter Iran's growing threats to commerce vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
Quito (AFP) July 20, 2023 - A leak at an oil terminal spilled at least 1,200 barrels of crude onto a beach popular with tourists in northwest Ecuador, near the border with Colombia, officials said Thursday.
Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2023 - US climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington was not dictating climate solutions to China, after President Xi Jinping said Beijing will make its own decisions on how to address global warming.
Aboard Fso Safer, Yemen (AFP) July 19, 2023 - When an alarm sounded on the decaying oil tanker off Yemen's coast, signalling a leak in its engine room, Hussein Nasser quickly sprang into action.
London (AFP) July 19, 2023 - Indian conglomerate Tata Group announced Wednesday that it will build a gigafactory in Britain to manufacture batteries, as nations accelerate away from fossil fuel vehicles.
London (AFP) July 19, 2023 - Indian conglomerate Tata Group announced plans Wednesday to build a Pounds 4 billion ($5.2 billion) electric car battery factory in Britain to supply its Jaguar Land Rover brands, bolstering the country's efforts to phase out fossil fuel vehicles.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 19, 2023 - Researchers at the University of Tokyo have generated electricity from latent heat, the energy created when a substance transitions from a solid, liquid or gas into another state. This achievement w
